Sons 



OF THE 



American 

Revolution 

District of Columbia 
Society 



REGISTER, 1906-7 







JOHN H. MOORE, 

COMMANDER, U. S N. (RETIRED! 
PRESIDENT, 1906-7. 



REGISTER 



OF THE 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SaiETY 



SONS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN REVOLUTION 



1906 



Compiled and Edited by 
Compatriots JOHN H. MOORE and I^OUIS A. DENT 



PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY, 

In the one hundred and thirtieth year of the Independence of the 

United States of America, at Washington, D. C, 

by R. Beresford 






1906=7. 



IPresiOent, 

COMMANDER JOHN H. MOORE, U. S. N. 

Dice iPresiDents, 

HON. SETH SHEPARD, iST, 
WILLIAM L. MARSH, 2D, 
PHILIP WALKER, 3D. 

IRecorOinQ Secretarig. 

LOUIS ADDISON DENT. 

dorresponOinQ Secretary, 

JOHN E. FENWICK. 

ICreasurer, 

PHILIP F. LARNER. 

IRcQistrar, 

ALBERT D. SPANGLER. 

assistant IReoistrar, 

PAUL BROCKETT. 

Ibistorian, 

REV. JOHN L. FRENCH. 

librarian, 

ZEBINA MOSES. 

Cbaplain, 

REV. THOMAS S. CHILDS, D. D. 



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3Boar^ of fiDanagement 

1907. 

WM. A. DeCAINDRY, 

DR. JOS. TABER JOHNSON, 

JOHN B. LARNER, 

WM. H. PEARCE, 

GEN. THOS. M. VINCENT. 

1908. 

FRANCIS E. GRICE, 

H. P. R. HOLT, 

CHAS. W. NEEDHAM, LL. D. 

FRED. D. OWEN, 

THOMAS P. RANDOLPH. 

1909. 

SIDNEY I. BESSELIEVRE, 
COL. FRED. C. BRYAN, 
WILLIAM V. COX, 
WALLACE D. McLEAN, 
JOHN SPEED SMITH. 



Notes : 

1. The year indicates the expiration of service, February 22tl. 

2. Mr. Randolph is deceased. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 

Committees. 

1906*7. 



Executive. 

Commander John H. Moore, U. S. N., Chairman. 
Phiwp Wai,ker, Albert d. Spangler, 

Sidney I. Besselievre, John Speed Smith. 

■QDlaigs anD /Ibeans. 

John Paul Earnest, Chairman. 
Hon. John Goode, Hon. John W. Douglass, 

Hon. a. B. Hagner, Edward M. Gallaudet, LL.D., 

Brainard H. Warner, Dr. Ira W. Dennison. 

JSuilOtng. 

Bernard R. Green, Chairman. 
Appleton p. Clark, Jr., George O. Totten, Jr. 

Xibrarg. 

William J. Rhees, Chairman. 
William E. Curtis, Fred D. Owen. 

BDvancement. 

William Hamilton Bayly, Chatrmatt. 
Rt. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee, Hon. Charles D. Walcott, 

Justice Thomas H. Anderson, Prof. Charles E. Munroe, 

R. Adm. Albert S. Barker, U.S.N., Justice David j. Brewer, 
Med. Dir. R. a. Marmion, U.S.N. , Hon. Jefferson Chandler, 
Col. Johnson V. Middleton, U.S.A., Col. Henry F. Blount. 
Hon. Edward B. Moore, 

/Dbeetinde. 

James Sheldon, Jr., Chairman. 
Henry B. Mirick, Albert J. Gore, 

Merritt I,. Dawkins, Dr. H. H. Donnally, 

Dr. Frank A. Swartwout, Rowan B. Tuley. 

JEUgibllitB. 

Prof. Selden M. Ely, Chairman. 
Cove L,. Himebaugh, Dr. Louis D. Carman. 



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acceptability. 

James W. Witten, Chairman. 
Edward M. Dawson, Capt. Edward A. Kreidler. 

IRccruitine. 

Rear Admiral George W. Baird, U. S. N., Chairman. 
Frank G. Butts, James A. Bailey, 

John D. Biddis, Surgeon J. L. Belknap, U.S.N. 

Charles S. Bradley, Dr. Frank L. Biscok, 

MoNcuRE Burke, Theodore L. Cole, 

Col. Robert Craig, U. S. A. Alfred B. Dent, 

Morris L. Croxall, Prof. Amos Draper, 

William A. Domer, Pickering Dodge, 

Dr. Williams Donnally, Dr. George N. French, 

Orange S. Firmin, Richard P. Hawes, 

Henry C. Gauss, Walter Hough, 

Dr. Joseph T. Johnson, Col. Gilbert C. Kniffen, 

Charles F. Langworthy, Oliver Perry Johnson, 

Dr. Charles C. Marburv, Langdon Moore, 

William W. W. Parker, William T. Powell, 

Thomas R. Raines, George B. Pitts, 

William D. Searle, Henry W. Samson, 

Cadwell Tyler, Wii^liam H. Somervell, 

William E. Todd, John Lewis Smith, 

Dr. Joseph S. Wall, John B. Thompson, 

Capt. Archibald W. Butts, U. S. A., 
Lt. Commander Edward E. Hayden, U. S. N., 
Lt. Commander Sumner E. W. Kittelle, U. S. N., 
Prof. J. Macbride Sterrett, D. D., 
Chief Engineer George E. Tower, it. S. N. 

press. 

William H. Pearce, Chairman. 
Charles E. Kern, Henry p. Holden. 

illbueic. 

Odell L. Whipple, Chairman. 
Robert .\. Smith, William E. Todd, Jr. 



REGISTER OF ACTIVE MEMBERS 

AND THEIR 

REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS, 

WITH AUTHENTIC SERVICES OF THE LATTER. 



The names of the ancestors and their records of revolutionary services 
are printed in small type. 



A 

ABBOTT, GRIFFITH EVANS. 

Griffith Evans, Asst. Medical Purveyor, Penna. Troops. 

ADAMS, ALBERT FRANCIS. 

Seth Clarke, Assistant Commissary-, Capt. Sabin Mann's Co. 
of Medfield Militia. 

ADAMS, FRANCIS JOSEPH. 

Robert Stockton, Major and Quartermaster, N. Y. Militia. 

ADAMS, RICHARD CALMIT. 

White Eyes, alias Wi-co-ca-lind, Head War Chief Delaware 
Indians; "took up the hatchet" for the United States and 
brought about treaty of Sept. 17, 1778, giving free passage 
of American Troops to Northwest Territory. 

ADDISON, MURRAY. 

Andrew Leitch, Major, Third Va. Regt. Died in action at 
Harlem Heights Oct. i, 1776. 

ALBRIGHT, JAMES B. 

Henry Haines, Ensign, German Battalion Penna. Continental 
Troops. 

ANDERSON, HARRY REUBEN. U. S. Army. 

Richard Clough Anderson, Lt. Col., Virginia Line. 

ANDERSON, THOMAS HENRY, Justice Supreme Court, D. C. 
Bazil Israel, ist Lieut., Elk Ridge Battalion Maryland Militia. 

APPLE, THEODORE THOMAS. 

Thomas Gilmore, Private, ist N. H. Continental Regt. 

ARMES, GEORGE AUGUSTUS. U. S. Army. 
James Orcutt, Private, Mass. Militia. 



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ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM WALTON. 

John Armstrong, Major General Continental Army. 

ASHMEAD, WILLIAM HARRIS. 

John Ashmead, Captain of Continental Brigs Eagle and Molly. 
Michael Graham, Private, Penna. Militia 
George Lehman, Staff Surgeon. 
Henry Ryves, Commissary. 

ATKINS, JOSEPH LEICESTER. 

Hezekiah Huntington, Private, 2d Conn. Regt., prisoner on 

the "Jersey." 
Elihu Kent, Major, ist Conn. Militia. 

AT LEE, WILLIAM EDWIN. 

William Augustus At Lee, Chairman Committee of Safety, 
Commissary, and Supt. Arsenal Barracks, Lancaster, Pa. 

AVERILL, FRANK LLOYD. 

Zephaniah Piatt, Jr., Member N. Y. Provincial Congress; 

Colonel, N. Y. Militia. 
Zephaniah Piatt, Sr., died on prison ship. 

AVERY, BRAINERD. 

Benjamin Wait, Captain, Green Mountain Rangers; Repre- 
sentative to General Assembly; Member Board of War. 

B 

BAILEY, CHARLES BROOKS. 

John Bailey, Colonel, 2d Mass. Continental Regiment. 

BAILEY, JAMES ARCHIBALD. 

William Bailey, Drummer, i6th Mass. Line. 
Moses Warren, Private, 2d Conn. Line. 

BAIRD, GEORGE WASHINGTON, U. S. Navy. 
James Fisher, Private, Stewart's Md. Regt. 
Richard Cauthorn, Private, Va. Continentals. 

BALDWIN, WILLIAM DICKSON. 

William Dickson, Surgeon, N. C. Militia. 

BALLOCH, EDWARD ARTHUR. 

Howard Reed, Private, Mass. Militia. 
Benjamin Palmer, Private, Mass. Militia. 

BARKER, ALBERT SMITH, U. S. Navy. 

Isaac Bowen Barker, Corporal, Mass. Infantry and Artillery. 

BARKER, JOHN SHEPARD. 

Elijah Shepard, Private, Mass. Troops. 

BARNES, CASSIUS BARTLETT, U. S. Navy. 
Joseph Olds, Corporal, Mass. Militia. 
Abner Bartlett, Private, Learned's Regt. Mass. Militia. 

BARR, WILLIAM ARTHUR. 

Isaac Barr, Private, Va. Infantry ; and trumpeter of Cavalr>\ 




EDWARD MINER GALLAUDET, LL. D. 
PRESIDENT, 1897-9. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 



BARRY, RICHARD VERMILLION. 

Jacob Bright, Capt., Nicola's Life Guards of Philadelphia. 

BATES, JOHN EDWARD. 

Robert Nelson, Private, Penna. Militia and Line. 

BAYLY, WILLIAM HAMILTON. 

James Bayly, Member Lancaster Co. Pa. Council; Justice of 

the Peace. 
William Hamilton, ist Lieut., Penna. Militia. 
Nicholas Bittenger, Captain, Penna. Militia. 
David McQueen, Captain, 7th Lancaster County Battalion, 
Penna. Militia. 

BAYNE, JOSEPH BRECKINRIDGE. 

Andrew Leitch, Major, Third Va. Regt. 

BEACH, WILLIAM DORRANCE, U. S. Army. 

James Kitchel, Private, N. J. Militia and Line. 
Abraham Kitchel, Delegate N. J. Provincial Congress. 
Charles Hoff, Private, N. J. Militia. 

Moses Tuttle, Member Committee of Observation of Morris 
County, N. J. 

BECK. GEORGE THORNTON. 

John Thornton, Lieut. Col., Va. Line. 

Richard Buckner, Member Westmoreland Committee of 
Safety. 

BECKETT, GEORGE M. 

John Daniels, Captain, ist Battalion Cumberland County, N. J. 

Troops. 
Silas Newcomb, Brigadier General, N. J. Militia. 

BECKWITH, PAUL. 

John Beckwith, Sergeant, Md. Militia. 
Thomas Smith, Private, Va. Militia. 

Gabriel Cerre, recognized patriot, assisting Gen. George Rog- 
ers Clark in Vincennes Campaign. 

BELKNAP, JAMES LYMAN, U. S. Navy. 

Joseph Belknap, Private, Ward's Mass. Regt., at Lexington 
Alarm. 

BELL, DAVID WILKINSON. 

James Bell, Corporal, 4th N. C. Regiment. 

BENEDICT, ISAAC HOYT. 

Thaddeus Benedict, Private, Conn. Militia. 
Elijah Hoit, Sergeant, Conn. Militia. 

BENfiT, LAURENCE VINCENT. 

Thomas Helm, ist Lieut., Va. Line. 
John Bucke, Officer of Va. Mihtia. 

BENNETT, ADOLPHUS BRUNER. 

Daniel Bennett, Private, Elmore's Conn. Regt. 

BENNETT, CLAUDE N. 

Daniel Sparks, Captain, S. C. Militia. 



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BENNETT, FRANK MARION, U. S. Navy. 
Jonathan Kneeland, Private, Conn. Militia. 

BENNETT, ROBERT ROOT. 

Moses Root, Corporal, Brown's Berk.shire County, Mass. Regt. 
Robert Bennett, Lieut., ist Smithfield, R. I. Company. 
Stephen Rust, Private, Col. Thomas Craft',^ Regt. of Artillery. 
Mitchell Kingman, Private, 6th Conn. Regt. 

BERRY, EDWARD HAMILTON. 

Roderic Tuell, Artificer, Light Artillery. 
William Tuell, Private, Clagett's Md. Co.; killed at battle of 
Germantown, 1777. 

BESSELIEVRE, SIDNEY INGRAHAM. 

Richard Mowlan, Private, 6th Md. Regt. 

William Applegate, Minute Man, Burlington County. N. J. 
Militia. 

BESSON, PAUL JULES AUGUSTS. 

Lonis Auguste Besson, Volunteer on French Frigate Le Dia- 
deme, under Count de Grasse, from Feb., 1779 to Jan., 1782. 

BIDDIS, JOHN DAVID. 

Joseph Britton, Private, N. J. Troops. 

BILLINGS, LUTHER GUITEAU, U. S. Navy. 
Daniel Billings, Lieut., Conn. Line. 

BIRGE, HARRY CYRUS. 

David Birge, Sergeant. Conn. Troops. 

BISCOE, EARLE, U. S. Army. 

William Chowning, Surgeon's Mate, and in Naval Service. 

BISCOE, FRANK LEE. 

William Chowning, Surgeon's Mate, and in Naval Service. 

BISCOE, HARRY EARLE, U. S. Navy. 

William Chowning, Surgeon's Mate, and in Naval Service. 

BISHOP, NAPOLEON CLAY. 

John Lapsley, Lieut., Va. Militia. 

BLANCHARD ARTHUR. 

Jeremiah Blanchard, Capt., 24th Conn. Militia. 

BLOSS, JOHN BROWN. 

Joseph Bloss, Private, Conn. Troops. 

David Bush, Private, Mass. Militia. 

Israel Peck, Private, Webster's Mass. Regt. 

BLOUNT, HENRY FITCH. 

Pirum Ripley, Powder Boy Marine Service; Private. X. Y. 

Militia. 
William Hunt, Corporal, Warner's Conn. Regt. 

BOUTELLE, JAMES THACHER. 

James Thacher, Surgeon, Mass. and Va. Regiments. 
Timothy Bontelle, Lieut., 23d Mass Foot. 



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BOWEN. JESSE CHESTER. 

Hezekiah Bowen, Private, Col. Simond's Mass. Regt. 
Joseph Morehouse. Private, Van Schoonhoven's Regt.. N. Y. 
Militia. 

BOWKER, CHARLES PTARVEY. 

Gideon Bowker, Private, Mass. Line. 

BOYD, LEROY STAFFORD. 

Thomas Boyd, Lieut., 5th Maryland Line. 

BOYDEN, STEPHEN ARNOLD. 

Thomas Boyden, Sergeant, Mass. Troops. 

BOYNTON, CHARLES AUGUSTUS. 

Caleb Boynton, Jr., Private, Mass. Militia. 
Caleb Boynton, Sr., Private, Mass. Militia. 
Martin Van Buskirk, Private, N. Y. Militia. 

BRADFORD, FENTON. 

Barnard Douglass, Private, Poor's N. H. Regt. 
Robert Douglass, Corporal, Mass. Militia ; Armorer on Mass. 
Sloop Winthrop. 

BRADLEY, CHARLES SMITH. 

Abraham Bradley, Captain, 2(1 Battalion, Wadsworth's Conn. 
Brigade. 

BRECKINRIDGE, JOSEPH CABELL, U. S. Army. 
John Breckinridge. Subaltern, Va. Militia. 
Joseph Cabell, Surgeon, Continental Army ; Commander 

Buckingham Militia. 
William Preston, Col. Va. Militia ; Member Committee of 

Safety. 
William Campbell, Brigadier General, Va. Militia; died in ser 

vice at Yorktown. 

BRECKINRIDGE. LUCIEN SCOTT, U. S. Army. 
John Breckinridge, Subaltern, Va. Militia. 
Joseph Cabell. Member Va. House of Burgesses ; Surgeon, 

Continental Army ; Commander Buckingham Militia. 
William Preston. Col.. Va. Militia ; Member Committee of 

Safety. 
William Campbell, Brigadier-General, Va. Militia; died in 

service at Yorktown. 
Cornelius Ludlow, Col.. N. J. Militia. 
Matthew Scott. Capt., Penna. Line. 
Isaac Webb, Lieut., 5th Va. Regt. 
James Chambers, Col., ist Penna. Line. 

BRECKINRIDGE, SCOTT DUDLEY. 

Cornelius Ludlow, Col., N. J. Militia. 

John Breckinridge, Subaltern, Va. Militia. 

Joseph Cabell, Menriier Va. House of Burgesses ; Surgeon, 

Continental Army. 
William Preston. Member of Committee of Safety ; Col., Va. 

Militia. 
William Campbell, Brigadier General, Va. Militia. 
Matthew Scott, Capt., Penna. Line. 
Isaac Webb, Lieut., 5th Va. Regt. 
James Chambers. Col., ist Penna. Line. 



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BREWER, DAVID JOSIAH, Justice U. S. Supreme Court. 

Timothy Field, Lieut., Conn., Militia and Coast Guards. 

BREWER, HIRAM HARLEY. 

John Brewer, Lieut., Ashley's Regt., Mass. Militia. 

BROCKETT, PAUL. 

James Hunter, Capt. and Paymaster, Penna. Militia. 

BROOKS, ALBERT FRANKLIN. 

Joshua Brooks. Sergeant, Mass. Militia. 

Daniel Batchelder, Private, Nichols' N. H. Regt. 

Caleb Maynard, Private, Hale's N. H. Regt. 

BROOKS, NEWTON MAY. 

Samuel Brooks, Member N. H. Provmcial Congress; Pay- 
master of Militia. 

BROWN, CHAPIN. 

Thomas Mason, Lieut., Cushing's Mass. Regt. 

BROWN, GUSTAVUS RICHARD. 

Gustavus Richard Brown, Member Charles County, Md., Com- 
mittee of Safety; Surgeon in Charge of Soldiers. 

BROWN, JOHN INGALLS. 

Benjamin Gross, Private, Mass. Continental Troops. 

BROWN. STEVEN CARVASSO. 

Nehemiah Brown, Private, Stark's N. H. Regt. 

BROWN, WILLIAM CAREY. U. S. Army. 
William Brown, Lieut., Penna. Militia. 

BRYAN, FREDERICK CARLOS. 

Elijah Bryan, Private, 3d Conn. Line. 
Eliphalet Barnum, Sergeant, Conn. Militia. 
Thomas Benedict, Private, Conn. Troops. 

BRYAN, HENRY LEWIS. 

Benajah Bryan, Private and Fifer, Conn. Troops. 

BRYANT, ARTHUR D. 

Jesse Billings, Private, Mass. Militia. 

BUKEY. JOHN SPENCER. 

Ephraim Foster, Sergeant, N. H. Troops. 

BUKEY, VAN H. 

Ephraim Foster, Sergeant, ist N. H. Regt. 

BULL, JOHN ELLIOTT. 

John Bull, Private, Conn. Troop*. 

BULLETTE, JOHN. 

White Eyes, alias Wi-co-ca-lind, Head War Chief of the Dela- 
ware Indians. 

BURBA, GEORGE FLANDERS. 

Jacob Flanders, Private, Cilley's N. H. Regt. 



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BURGESS, RALPH EDWIN. 

Elijah Hyde. Major. 2d Conn. Light Horse. 
John Stark. Brigadier and Brevet Major-General, Continental 
Army. 

BURKE, MONCURE. 

Thomas Gaskins, Lt. Col., Va. Line. 

BUSHNELL, ELIPHALET TUCKER. 
Asa Lay, Captain, 6th Conn. Line. 

BUTLER, CLARENCE M. 

Mathew Butler, Corporal, Conn. Troops. 

Heli Foot, Private, Conn. Militia : Seaman in privateer service. 

BUTT, ARCHIBALD WILLINGHAM, U. S. Army. 

John Robertson, 2d Lieut., Chesterfield County, Va., Militia. 
William Mosely, Major, Va. Line. 

Arthur Mosely, Member of Committee of Safety, 1775. 
James Francis Robertson, Adjutant, 13th Va. Regt. 

BUTTERFIELD, FRANKLIN GEORGE. 

William Butterfield,\ Jr., Private, N. H. Militia. 
William Butterfield, Sr., Minuteman at Lexington Alarm. 

BUTTS, FRANK GRAHAM. 

Daniel Hickok, Capt., Conn. Militia. 

Charles Turnbull, Capt., 4th Penna. Continental Artillery. 

BYRNE, BERNARD ABERT, U. S. Army. 

Timothy Matlack, Col., Penna. Militia; Member Committee 
of Safety; Member Continental Congress. 

BYRNE, CHARLES, U. S. Army. 

Timothy Matlack, Col., Penna. Militia; Member Committee 
of Safety; Member Continental Congress. 

c. 

CALDWELL, CHARLES TUFTS. 

Jonathan Ames, Private, Gary's Regt., Mass. Militia. 
Ebenezer Caldwell, Private, Mitchell's Regt., Mass. Militia. 
• Sylvanus Hayward, Private, Gary's Regt., Mass. Militia. 
Jacob Hayward, Private, Mitchell's Regt., Mass. Militia. 
Benjamin Price, Private, Mass. Minutemen and Militia. 

CALDWELL, HARRY CLARK. 

Jonathan Ames, Private, Gary's Regt., Mass. Militia. 
Ebenezer Caldwell, Private, Mitchell's Regt., Mass. Militia. 
Sylvanus Hayward, Private, Gary's Regt., Mass. Militia. 
Jacob Hayward, Private, Mitchell's Regt, Mass. Militia. 
Benjamin Price, Private, Mass. Minutemen and Militia. 

CAMERON, FRANK KENNETH. 

Jacquelin Ambler, Va. State Treasurer; Member of Privy 
Council. 

CARMAN, LOUIS DALE. 

Ellis Ayres, Private, Middlesex Co., N. J., Militia. 
Phineas Carman, Private, Middlesex County, N. J. Militia. 



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CARMODY, FRANCIS JOSEPH MARIA. 
John Doyle, Captain, nth Penna. Line. 

CARMODY, JOHN DOYLE. 

John Doyle, Captain, nth Penna. Line. 

CHAMBERLAIN, WILLIAM LASSELLE. 

Frangois Riday de Bosseron, Major of Va. Militia at Vin- 
cennes. 

CHAMBERS, DAVID ABBOTT. 

David Chambers, Colonel, Hunterdon Co., N. J., Militia. 

CHANDLER, JEFFERSON. 

Joshua Sinclair, Fifer, loth N. H. Regt. 
Richard Sinclair, Major, loth N. H. Regt. 

CHARLTON, CHARLES HYMEN. 

John Polhemus, Major, N. J., Militia. 
John Hart, Signer Declaration of Independence. 
Charles Allen, Commander Armed Boat "Gibraltar"' ; Private. 
N. J. Line. 

CHARLTON, JOHN PASCAL. 

John Polhemus, Major, N. J. Militia. 

John Hart, Signer Declaration of Independence. 

CHESTER, COLBY MITCHEL, U. S. Navy. 

Thomas Chester, Paymaster, Continental Army. 
Thomas Harris, Sergeant, Conn. Line; and in Washington's 
Body Guard. 

CHICKERING, REV. JOHN WHITE. 

Joseph Knowlton, Private, Mass. Militia. 
John White, Quartermaster, Mass. Militia; 2d Lieut., Con- 
tinental Infantry. 

CHILDERS, GRACEY. 

Abraham Childers, Private, Va. Militia. 

Christian Orndorff, Capt., 6th Md. Regt. *' 

Francis Cowherd, Capt., 2d Va. Regt. 

James Patton, Lieut., under General George Rogers Clark. 

CHILDS, REV. THOMAS SPENCER. 

Reuben Childs, Private, Mass. Militia. 
Asaph King, Quartermaster, Mass. Militia. 

CHIPMAN, AMOS JAMES. 

Amos Chipman, Private, Vt. Militia. 

CLARK, A. HOWARD. 

Enoch Clark, Mass., Privateersman ; prisoner. 
Enoch Hall, Private, Mass. Militia. 

Thomas Jenner Carnes, Captain-Lieutenant, Knox's Con- 
tinental artillery ; Captain of Marines ; prisoner. 
Edward Carnes, Major, Mass. Militia. 

CLARK, APPLETON PRENTISS, JR. 
Isaac Clark, Lieut., Mass. Militia. 
John Clark Member Mass. Provincial Congress; Member 

Committee of Safety. 
George Clark, Private, Mass. Militia. 



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Joshua Prentiss, ist Lieut., Mass. Militia. 
William Conant. Lieut. Col, 4th Mass. Militia. 
Nathaniel Appleton, Chaplain, Mass Provincial Congress. 
Joshua Woodman, Capt.. N. H. Militia. 

CLARK, CLIFTON POWER. 

Mather Clark, Private, Va. Militia. 

CLARK, WILLIAM FRANKLIN. 

Jacob N. Clark, Sergeant, Md. Line; prisoner on N. Y. prison 
ship. 

CLARKE, SAMUEL A. 

Ebenezer Jesup, Surgeon, Conn. Troops. 

CLAYTON, WILLIAM McKENDRIE. 

Henr\- Clayton, Lieutenant, Penna. Flying Camp. 

COLE, THEODORE LEE. 

William Cole, Private, N. Y. Militia. 

COLEMAN, HORACE. 

Asaph Coleman, Surgeon, Conn. State Troops. 
Noah Coleman, Surgeon, 2d Conn. Line. 

COLLAMER, NEWTON LEON. 

Anthony Collamer, Jr., Private, loth Mass. Regt. 

COLLINS, JAMES SUMNER. 

John Mandeville, Capt., 3d N. Y. Regt. and Westchester 
Light Horse. 

COMPTON, WILLIAM NORRIS. 

Robert Rutherford, Delegate N. C. Provincial Congress, 1775. 

COOMBS, CHARLES WILLIAM. 

John Coombs, Private, Va. State Troops. 

COOPER, CHARLES MULFORD. 

John Perrine, Sergeant, Somerset, N. J., Militia. 
Henry Perrine, Private, Monmouth, N. J., Militia. 

COPENHAVER, WILLIAM A. 

Simon Copenhaver, Capt., York County, Penna., Militia. 

COWLES, CALVIN DUVALL, U. S. Army. 

Josiah Covifles, Member Southington, Conn., Committee of 

Inspection. 
Andrew Carson, Capt., N. C. Militia. 
Thomas Young, Commissary, N. C. Partisan Troops. 
Christopher Houston, Captain, N. C. Rangers. 

COX, WILLIAM VAN ZANDT. 

James Cox, Brigadier-General, N. J. Militia. 
Jacobus (James) Van Zandt, Private, Penna. Militia. 
William Denison, Corporal, Conn. Militia. 
Johannes Kroessen, 2d Lieut., Penna. Militia. 

CRAIG, ROBERT, U. S. Army. 

Thomas Craig, Col., 3d Penna. Line. 



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CROCKER, HENRY GRAHAM. 

Isaac Cooke, Jr., Lieut. Col., Wadsworth Conn. Regt. 

CROISSANT, DEWITT CLINTON. 

Amos Smith, Captain, 9th Conn. Militia. 

Ephraim Sands, Private, Lemuel Robinson's Mass. Regt., 

Continental Service. 
John Wood Palmer, Clerk, John Mead's Regt., Conn. Militia. 
Isaac Cornwall, Private, Major Sheldon's Regt., Conn. Light 

Horse. 

CROXALL, MORRIS L. 

Charles Croxall, Capt, Hartley's Penna. Regt. 

CURTIS, WILLIAM ELEROY. 

Felix Curtis, Private, Conn. Line. 

CUTCHEON, BYRON M. 

Frederick McCutcheon, Private, N. H. Troops. 

D 

DABNEY, CHARLES WILLIAM. 

Thomas Price, Captain, Va. Militia. 

DANFORTH, CHARLES H., U. S. Army. 

Robert Hanson Harrison, Lieut. Col., Va. Continental .Line; 
Military Secretary to General Washington. 

DANFORT, MONTGOMERY E. 

Jonathan Danforth, Capt., Mass. Militia. 

DAVIDGE, CHARLES HENRY. 

William Grant, Frontier soldier at seige of Bryan's Station. 

DAVIS, CHARLES S. 

Amos Smith, Captain, 9th Conn. Militia. 

Ephraim Sands, Private, Lemuel Robinson's Mass. Regt., Con- 
tinental Service. 
John Wood Palmer, Clerk, John Mead's Regt., Conn. Militia. 

DAVIS, CLELAND, U. S. Navy. 

James Davis, Capt., S. C. Cavalry. 
James Kincaid, Capt, S. C. Cavalrj'. 

DAVIS, SAMUEL GRANVILLE. 

Oliver Travis, Private, Mass. Militia. 

DAWKINS, MERRITT LEWIS. 

John Dawkins, Private, N. C. Militia. 

DAWSON, EDWARD MATTHEWS. 

William Hambleton, Capt., 38th Battalion Maryland Militia. 

DAY, DAVID TALBOT. 

Samuel Day, Private, Va. Militia. 
Leonard Day, Private, Va. Militia. 

DAY, LEONARD. 

Moses Wilder, Corporal, Whitcomb's Mass. Regt 




THOMAS MCCURDY VINCENT, 

BRIGADIER GENERAL, U. S. A. 
PRESIDENT, 1899-1901. 



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DE CAINDRY, WILLIAM AUGUSTIN. 

Augustin Rouxelin Denos, Capitaine-Commandant in Rocliam- 
beau's Army at Yorktown. 

DENNISON, IRA WARREN. 

Isaac Dennison, Member Committee of Correspondence and 

Safety, Conn. 
Manasseh Miner, Sergeant, 8th Conn. Regt. 
Robert Dennison, Sergeant, Conn. Militia. 

DENT, ALFRED BARBOUR. 

John Dent, Lieut., 9th Va. Infantry-. 

DENT, LOUIS ADDISON: 

Hatch Dent, Capt., Smallwood's Battalion Md. Line ; prisoner 
on British prison ship at New York. 

DEVRIES, REV., WILLIAM LEVERING. 

Aaron Levering, Lt. Col., 2d Battalion, Philadelphia Militia. 

DEYER, ROBERT OLDNER. 

Crawford Newson, Private, Va. Infantry and Light Dragoons. 

DICKINS, FRANCIS WILLIAMS, U. S. Navy. 
John Pearce, ist Lieut., R. I. Militia. 

DISHMAN, SAMUEL ROLAND. 

John Jones, Private, Woodford's Va. Regt. 
Charles Higdon, Mariner, Va. Navy. 

DOBSON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. 

Reuben Marcy, Captain, Chester's Battallion Conn. Troops. 

DODGE, PICKERING. 

Samuel Howard, Member Boston Tea Party; 2d Lieut., 
Hatch's Boston Regt. 

DOMER, WILLIAM ARLINGTON. 

John George Hummel, Drummer, Pa. Militia. 

DONNALLY, CHARLES WILLIAMS. 

John Williams, Captain, Va. Militia. 

Andrew Donnally, High Sheriff Greenbrier Co.; Captain, Mil- 
itia at Fort Donnally, Va. 

DONNALLY, HARRY HAMPTON. 

John ("Jack") Williams, Capt., Militia at Fort Donnally, Va. 

DONNALLY, WILLIAMS. 

John Williams, Capt., Va. Militia. 

Andrew Donnally. High Sheriff Greenbrier Co.; Capt., Militia 
at Fort Donnally, Va. 

DOTY, JACOB LAMB. 

Samuel Doty, Capt. -Lieut., 2d Continental Artillery. 
Benjamin Baldwin, Capt., N. Y. State Troops; Col., New 

Haven Alarm Guard. 
Benjamin Tallman, Col., R. I. Infantry. 
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DOTY, REV. WILLIAM FURMAN. ' 

Samuel Doty, Capt.-Lieut, 2d Continental Artillery. 
Benjamin Baldwin, Capt., N. Y. State Troops; Col., New 

Haven Alarm Guard. 
Benjamin Tallman, Col, R. L Infantry. 

DOUGLASS, JOHN WATKINSON. 

John Douglass, Capt., Philadelphia Riflemen. 

DRAPER. AMOS GALUSHA. 

Amos Galusha, Private, Vt. Militia. 

Jeremiah Clark, Major, Vt. Militia; Member Council of 
Safety. 

DRAYTON, CHARLES DE VERE. 

William Henry Drayton, President Council of Safety and 
Provincial Congress of S. C. ; Chief Justice; member of 
Continental Congress. 

DU BOIS, ADDISON GRIFFIN. 

Minna Du Bois, ist Sergeant, 2d Battalion, N. J. Militia. 
Abraham Du Bois, Capt., 2d Battalion, N. J. Militia. 

DU BOIS, JAMES TAYLOR. 

Minna Du Bois, Sergeant, N. J. Militia. 
Abraham Du Bois, Capt., N. J. Militia. 
James Taylor, Private, Mass. Line. 

DU BOIS, RICHARD CATLIN, U. S. Army. 
Minna Du Bois, Sergeant, N. J. Militia. 
Abraham Du Bois, Capt., N. J. Militia. 
James Taylor, Private, Mass. Line. 

DUNN, SEELY. 

Israel Hutchinson, Col., 27th Continental Inf. 

DUVALL, ANDREW BRADLEY. JR. 

Marsh Mareen Duvall. Capt., 25th Battalion Prince George. 
County, Md., Militia. 

DYER, LEONARD HUNTRESS. 

James Chesley, Private, N. H. Militia. 

Richard Furber, Sergeant, Wingate's N. H. Regt. 

DYSART, REV. JOHN. 

Aaron Lyle, Private, Northampton County, Penna., Militia 
and Flying Camp. 

E 

EARNEST, JOHN PAUL. 

Henry Black, Capt., 5th Co., 3d Battalion, Bedford Coun- 
ty, Penna., Militia. 

EDDY, OTIS JUDD. 

Willard Eddy, Private, R. I. Line. 

EDMONSTON, GABRIEL. 

John Follin, Sailor, Continental Navy; prisoner in England. 



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ELLIS, JOHN FRANCIS. 

Timothy Ellis, Colonel, N. H. Militia. 

Josiah Merriam, Sergeant, Hosmer's Company; Minuteman 

at Concord. 
Timothy Wheeler, Capt., Mass. Militia at Concord. 

ELY, SELDEN MARVIN. 

Samuel. Selden, Colonel, Conn. Militia. 
George Griffin, private, 8th Conn. Regt. 
Timothy Gates, Sergt., Conn. Militia. 
Seth Ely, Captain, 3d. Conn. Militia. 

EMERY, OLIVER VAN AUKEN. 

Nathaniel Van Auken, Private, N. Y. Troops. 

EPES, HENRY SYLVANUS. 

Pliny Green, Private, Mass Militia. 

David Green, Colonel, 2d Middlesex, Mass., Minutemen. 

ERNEY, CHARLES ALBERT. 

Yost Harbaugh, Capt., York County, Penna., Militia. 

EYSTER, GEORGE SENSENY. 

William Heyser, Capt., Arendt's German Regt. 

F 

FAIRMAN, CHARLES E. 

John Fairman, Private, Sherburne's Continental Regt. 

FARLEY, JOHN WILLIAM. 

John Frierson, ist Lieut., 2d S. C. Regt. 

FAULKNER, CHARLES JAMES. 

William Mackey, Capt., Va. Line. 

FENNING, FREDERICK ALEXANDER. 

Moses Anderson, Private, 3d Regt., N. J. Militia. 

FENNING, KARL HERBERT. 

John Dey, Private, N. J. Troops. 

Peter Perrine, Capt., 3d Regt., N. J. Militia. 

FENWICK, JOHN EDWARD. 

Ignatius Fenwick, Colonel, Md. Militia. 

Notley Young, Member Annapolis Convention of 1775; Jus- 
tice of the Peace. 

FINLEY, MARK FLORUS. 

Solomon Phelps, 2d Lieut., 12th Conn. Regt. 

FIRMAN, ORANGE SCOTT. 

Moses Bursiel, Corporal, Mass., Militia. 
John Green, Corporal, Conn. Militia. 

FISHER, ROBERT STRETTELL JONES, JR. 
David Jameson, Colonel, Penna. Militia. 

FLINT, JAMES MILTON, U. S. Navy. 

Abraham Stickney, Lieut., Mass Militia. 

Joshua Baldwin, Capt., Middlesex, Mass. Militia. 



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FOSTER, EVERETT WORTHINGTON. 

Isaac Foster, Private, Hampshire County, Mass., Militia. 

FOWLER, WALLACE GALLAUDET. 

Noah Fowler, Colonel, 27th Conn. Mihtia. 

FRENCH, GEORGt. NORRIS. 

Daniel Norris, Private, N. H. l^Iilitia. 

FRENCH, REV. JOHN LOUIS. 

William French, Private, Cumberland County, Penna., Militia. 

FRENCH, LEON LE LAUNE. 

Abram Fitz John Channel, Privateersman ; Private, Mass. 
Militia. 

FROST, FLOYD THOMAS. 

Samuel Delavan, Capt., 3d Westchester County, N. Y. Militia. 

PRYE, WILLIAM PIERCE, U. S. Senator. 
Joseph Frye, Jr., Colonel, Mass. Militia. 

Joseph Frye, Sr., Major-General, Mass Troops; Brigadier- 
General, Continental Army. 

FULLER, WILLIAM A. M. 

George Ross, Signer Declaration of Independence. 
Mark Bird, Member Philadelphia Convention 1775 ; Lieut- 
Col., Bucks County, Penna., Militia. 

FULTON, HORACE MARION. 

Robert Fulton, Private, Crane's Mass. Regt. 
Samuel Gunnison, Capt., i6th N. H. Regt. 

G 

GALLAGHER, REV. CHARLES W. 

Abijah Ingalls, Private. Abbott's Andover Company at Lex- 
ington Alarm. 

GALLAGHER, EDWARD JAMES, Jr. 

John Hart, Signer Declaration of Independence. 

•GALLAGHER, WILLIAM GEORGE. 

John Gallagher, Sergeant, 6th Penna. Line. 

GALLAUDET, EDWARD MINER. 

Peter Wallace Gallaudet, Private Secretary to General Wash- 
ington. 
Noah Fowler, Lieut-Col., 28th Conn. State Troops. 

GARDNER, FREELAND BARRY. 

John Voorhees, Capt., Somerset County, N. J. Militia. 

GARRISON. JOHN ROWZEE. 

John Garrison, Private, Va. Militia. 

GARVIN, EDGERTON CHESTER. 

Simeon Edgerton. Capt., Conn. Militia. 

Jacob Edgerton, Private, Stark's Company, Vermont Militia. 



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GAUSS, HENRY COLFORD. 

Michael Cross, Private, Capt. Samuel Flint's Co. of Mass. 
Minutemen. 

GERALD, HERBERT PARVIN. 

James Ogden, Capt., N. J. Militia. 
John Houseman, Capt., N. J. Militia. 

GETCHELL, EVERETT THORNTON. 

John Conch, Private, R. I. and Mass Troops. 

GIBBS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 

John Fort, Private, Burlington Countv, N. J., Militia, 

GLAVIS, EDWARD SUMNER. 

Jacob Weise, Deputy Quartermaster General, N. J. Militia. 
Isaac Smith Capt., Essex County, N. J., Militia. 

GLAVIS, GEORGE OSCAR. 

Isaac Smith, Capt., 2d Essex County, N. J., Militia. 

Jacob Weise, Deputy Quartermaster General. N. J., Militia. 

GODDARD, MATHEW. 

John Plant, Sergeant, ist Md. Regt. 

GOODE, JOHN. 

Edmund Goode, Private, Va. Line. 

Joel Breckinridge Leftwich, Capt., Va. Militia. 

GOODWIN, ORLANDO WELLINGTON. 

Nathaniel Goodwin, Capt., 5th Regt., Conn. Light Horse. 
Solomon Goodwin, Sergeant, Conn. Militia. 

GORE, ALBERT J. 

Thomas Neil, Lieut., Watson's Battalion, Lancaster County, 
Penna., Troops. 

GRAHAM, ANDREW BUTLER. 

Isaac Gilbert Graham, Surgeon's Mate, 7th Mass. Regt., Con- 
tinental Line. 

Andrew Graham, Member Committee of Safety, Woodbury, 
Conn. ; Surgeon, Conn. Troops. 

John Requa, Scout at North Castle. 

James Requa, Justice of the Peace ; Member Committee of 
Safet}', Woodbury, Conn. 

GRAHAM, FREDERICK WORDEN MONTROSE. 

Isaac Gilbert Graham, Surgeon's Mate, Mass. Line; Asst. 

Surgeon, Continental Army. 
Andrew^ Graham, Surgeon, Conn. Troops ; captured at White 
Plains. 

GRAHAM, JOHN REQUA. 

Isaac Gilbert Graham, Surgeon's Mate, Mass. Line; Asst. 

Surgeon, Continental Army. 
Andrew Giaham, Surgeon, Conn. Troops; captured at White 

Plains. 
John Requa, Private, N. Y., Militia. 

GRASTY, MASON COOKE. 

George Mason, author of Va. "Bill of Rights." 



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GRAVES. GEORGE EDGAR. 

Nathan Graves, Private, Mass. Militia. 

GRAY, ALONZO, U. S. Army. 

Amos Hubbell, Adjutant, Canheld's Conn. Regt. 
Elias Gray, Private, Conn. Irregular Militia. 

GREELY, ADOLPHUS WASHINGTON, U. S. Army. 
Joseph Greely, Sergeant, Johnson's Mass. Regt. 

GREEN, ALBERT RANDOLPH. 

Charles Reichart, Private, Penna. Troops. 

GREEN. ANDREW JORDAN. 

Jesse Green, Corporal, Va. Militia. 

GREEN, BERNARD RICHARDSON. 

Bernard Green, Lieut., Mass. Militia. 
Joseph Ricliardson, Ensign, loth N. H. Regt. 

GREENAWALT. FRANK FOSTER. 

Philipp Lorenz Greenawalt, Col., Lancaster County, Penna., 

Militia. 
John Hart, signer Declaration of Independence. 

GREENAWALT, JOHN GEORGE. 

Phillip Lorenz Greenawalt, Col., Lancaster County, Penna., 

Associators. 
John Hart, signer Declaration of Independence. 

GREENE, FOSTER REGNIER. 

Samuel Phillips, Major, Topham's R. I. Battalion ; Naval 
Commander. 

GREENE, REV. SAMUEL HARRISON. 

John Parker, Capt.. Company of Minutemen in Lexington 
fight, April 19, 1775. 

GREENLEAF, CHARLES RAVEN SCROFT, U. S. Army. 
Moses Greenleaf, Capt., Mass. Line. 

Jonathan Greenleaf, Member Mass. Provincial Congress ; 
Member Committee of Safety of Newburj'. 

GRICE, FRANCIS. 

Joseph Grice, Lieut., Penna. Light Infantry and Artillery; 

privateersman. 
Francis Grice, Lieut.. Philadelphia Artillery; Major under 
General Mifflin; prisoner. 

GRICE, FRANCIS ELLIOTT. 

Joseph Grice, Lieut., Penna. Light Infantry and Artillery ; 

privateersman. 
Francis Grice, Lieut., Philadelphia Artillery; Major under 

General Mifflin; prisoner. 

GROESBECK. WALTER DAVIS. 

Peter W. Groesbeck, Private, 3d, Albany County, N. Y., 
Militia. 



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GROSVENOR. CHARLES HENRY, U. S. Representative. 

Thomas Grosvenor, Lieut.-Col., Commandant Conn. Line. 

GURLEY, WILLIAM BROOKS. 

Roswell Post, Sergeant and Clerk, Vt. Militia. 

H 

HAGNER, ALEXANDER BURTON, Justice Supreme Court, 
D. C. 

John Randall, Member Annapolis Committee of Safety, 
Co'mmissary Md. Line. 

HAINS, JOHN POWER, U. S. Army. 

Robert Carr, Private, Penna. Militia. 

HAINS, ROBERT PETER. 

Robert Carr, Private, Penna. Militia. 

HALL, HENRY ORVILLE. 

Asahel Hall, Jr., Private, 8th Conn. Regt. 
Asahel Hall, Sr., Private, gth Conn. Regt. 
Hezekiah Johnson, Capt., Conn. Militia. 

HANCOCK, JOHN. 

Edward Hoxworth. Drum-Major, Penna. Troops. 

HARBAUGH, JOHN WASHINGTON. 

John Stith, Captain of Infantry, Va. Line. 
Lawrence Washington, Member Westmoreland, Va., Associa- 
tion of Patriots. 

HARDIN, MARTIN D., U. S. Army. 

John Hardin, Private, Daniel Morgan's Rifle Corps. 

HARRISON, JEFFERSON LAFAYETTE. 

Richard Harrison, Musician, 7th Md. Regt. 

HARRISON, JOHN SCOTT. 

Benjamin Harrison, Signer Declaration of Independence. 
John Cleves Symmes, Colonel ; Member Continental Congress. 

HARRISON, WILLIAM BURR. 

Burr Harrison, Corporal, 3d Va. Regt. 

Leven Powell, Lieut. Col., Grayson's Continental Regt. 

HASKELL, CYRUS VOSE. 

John Haskell, Private, Ebenezer Francis' Mass. Regt. 

HAWES, JOHN GARDNER. 

Ebenezer Avery, Col., 8th Conn. Militia. 

HAWES, RICHARD PAULISON. 

Ebenezer Avery. Col., 8th Conn. Militia. 

HAYDEN, EDWARD EVERETT, U. S. Navy. 

Ebenezer Dorr, Member Mass. Committees of Correspond- 
ence, Inspection and Safety. 



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HENDERSON, JOHN STEELE. 

Richard Henderson, President of Colony of Transylvania^ 

^775- 
William Steele, aided General Greene in Southern Campaign. 

HENRY, ALFRED JUDSON. 

Daniel Boyle, Sergeant, 13th Penna. Riflemen. 

HENRY, EDWIN STANTON. 

Daniel Boyle, Sergeant, 13th Penna. Riflemen. 

HERRICK, SAMUEL. 

Samuel Herrick, Private, 4th Regt. N. Y. Line. 

Rufus Herrick, Captain, 4th Continental Regt. 

Eleazer Lindsley, Lieut. Col., N. J. Continental Troops. 

John Howard, Sergeant, Md. Artillery. 

William Jackman, ist Sergeant, N. H. Troops. 

George Jackman, Delegate N. H. Convention of 1778 ; Member 
of Committee of Safety. 

George Jackman, Selectman of Boscawen, N. H., 1776. 

Josiah Putman, Capt., Foster's Mass. Regt. ; Member Com- 
mittee of Safety. 

HIGHBORN, PHILIP, U. S. Navy. 

Robert Hichborn, Member of Patriot's Guard of Tea Ships, 

I77.V 
Thomas Hichborn, Member Boston Committee of Safety. 
Solomon Gould, Private, Mass. Militia. 

HILL, DAVID JAYNE, U. S. Minister. 

Jacob Reeder, Master Armorer with rank of Capt., Moylan's 

4th Light Dragoons. 
Nathaniel Jayne, Member of Timothy Jayne's Company; pris- 
oner on ship "Jersey." 

HILL, EDWIN ALLSTON. 

Reuben Hill, Private, Conn. Line. 

Richard Stokes, Private, Conn. Line. 

John Jones, Shore Guard at Forts Groton and Saybrook, 

Conn. 
Nathaniel Chapman, Captain. Flower's Artillery Artificer Regt. 

of Conn. 

HILL, ROBERT THOMAS. 

Abraham Stout, Lieut, and Brevet Capt., 3d N. J. Battalion; 

prisoner. 
John Tannehill, Paymaster, Lieut., 9th Va. Regt. 

HILLYER. EDWARD LOUIS. 

William Richards, Capt., Conn. Continental Line. 

HILLYER. WILLIAM ELDRIDGE. 

William Richards, Capt., Conn. Continental Line. 

HILLYER, WILLIAM RICHARDS. 

William Richards, Capt., Conn. Continental Line. 

HIMEBAUGH, COYE LESLIE. 

Elijah Hawks, Private, Conn. Line; Hospital Steward. 




NOBLE DANFORTH LARNER. 
PRESIDENT, 1901-3. 



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HITT, ISAAC REYNOLDS. 

Thomas Smith, Major, 5th Md. Regt. 

HITT, ISAAC REYNOLDS, JR. 

Thomas Smith, Major, 5th Md. Regt. 

HOFFMAN, CHARLES GRIFFITH. 

Paul Hoffman, Quartermaster Sergeant, Penna. Militia. 

HOLDEN, HENRY P. 

Moses Goodman, Lieut., Huntington's Conn. Regt. 

HOLLISTER, WILFRED RUFUS. 

Alexander Anderson, Drummer, Capt., Samuel T. Pell's Co. 
2d N. Y. Regt. of Foot. 

HOLT, FELIX RENOUF, U. S. Navy. 

John Holt, Jr., Private; killed at Fort Griswold. 
John Holt, Sergeant, 6th Conn. Regt. 
Benjamin Hempstead, Corporal, 3d Conn. Regt. 
Joshua Hempstead, Private, 3d Conn. Regt. 

HOLT, HENRY PETER RENOUF. 

John Holt, Jr., Private, Conn. Militia; killed at Fort Gris- 
wold. 
John Holt, Sr., Quartermaster, Conn. Militia. 
Benjamin Hempstead, Corporal, 3d Conn. Regt. 
Joshua Hempstead, Private, 3d Conn. Regt. 

HOOE, ABRAM BARNES. 

George Mason, Capt., Va. Line. 

George Mason, Author of Va. Bill of Rights. 

HOOKER, CHARLES EDWARD. 

Charles Allen, Private, S. C. Militia. 

HOUGH, WALTER. 

Abner Fairchild, Captain, N. J. Militia. 

HOWE, GEORGE ALPHA. 

Thomas Cowdin, Captain, N. Y. and Mass. Militia. 

HOWE, WALTER, U. S. Army. 

James Gaines, Capt., N. C. Militia. 

HUME, ROBERT SCOTT. 

William Hansbrough, Private, Va. Troops. 

HURST, CARL BAILEY. 

Samuel Flurst, Private, Md. Line. 

HUSBAND, HENRY MORRIS. 

Robert Morris, Signer Declaration of Independence. 
William Pitt Smith, Surgeon, Continental Service. 

HUTCHINSON, NORMAN. 

Edmund Parker, Private, Mass. Militia and Line. 



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IDE, GEORGE RUSSELL. 

Ichabod Ide, Corporal, Hathaway's Mass. Regt. 

IRELAN, WILLIAM TILLMAN. 

James Bidlack, Sr., Commander of Fort Plymouth in Battle 
of Wyoming Valley, Pa., July 3, 1778. 



JACK, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. 

Christopher Gardiner, Capt., R. I. Line. 

JACOBS, CHARLES PORTER. 

Elijah Williams, Sergeant, Parson's Regt. Conn Line. 

JENNINGS, ALLEN GALES. 

John Miller, Sergeant, Dayton's Regt. N. J. Line. 
Samuel Carmen, Private and Scout, N. J. Militia. 

JEWELL, THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN, U. S. Navy. 
David Robinson, Ensign, Md. Militia. 

JOHNS, REV. ARTHUR S. 

Nicholas Van Dyke, Member Continental Congress ; Governor 
of Delaware. 

JOHNSON, ARNOLD BURGES. 

Jeremiah Johnson, Private, ist N. H. Regt. 
John Burges, Lieut., Mass. Militia. 

JOHNSON, ARTHUR EDWARD. 

Amos Merritt, Private, Mass. Militia. 
William Henshaw, Private, Mass. Militia. 

JOHNSON, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 

Frederick Coons, Private, 6th Va. Line. 

JOHNSON, CHARLES HUBERT. 

Timothy McNemara, Captain, Dorchester Countv. Md., 
Militia. 

JOHNSON, FRANK WARREN. 

John Cleveland, Chaplain, 17th Mass. Militia. 

JOHNSON, FREDERICK CURTISS, U. S. Army. 
Jeremiah Johnson, Private, ist N. H. Regt. 
John Burges, Lieut., Mass. Militia. 

JOHNSON, JEROME FLETCHER. 

Jeremiah Johnson, Private, ist N. H. Regt. 

Daniel Bowen, Private, 2d Conn. Regt. Continental Line. 

JOHNSON, JOSEPH TABER. 

Jeremiah Johnson, Private, ist N. H. Regt. 
John Burges, Lieut., Mass. Militia. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 



JOHNSON, LOREN BASCOM TABER. 

Jeremiah Johnson, Private, ist N. H. Regt. 
John Burges, Lieut., Mass Militia. 
Jilias Bascom, Private. Mass. Militia. 
Asa Field, Private, Mass. Militia. 

JOHNSON, OLIVER PERRY. 

Timoth}' McNemara, Capt., Dorchester County. j\ld.. Militia. 

JONES, EDWARD SALMON. 

Israel Jones, Jr., Capt., i8th Conn. Regt. 

JONES, MYRON JERMAIN. 

John Jermain, 2d Major, New York Troops. 
Timothj- Delavan, Lieut., 7th Dutchess Conntv Regt., New 
York Militia. 

K 

KEMPER, CHARLES EDWARD. 

May Burton, Capt., Va. Troops. 
Jacob Kisling, Private, Va., Troops. 

XENDALL, FRANCIS DRAKE. 

Lemuel Drake, Private, Conn. Line. 

William Ellcrbie, Private, Benton's S. C. Regt. 

KENDALL, HENRY MYRON, U. S. Army. 
x\ndre\v Evans, Private, Mass. Militia. 

'KENNON, LYMAN WALTER VERE, U. S. Army. 
Asaph Hall, Capt., Conn. State Troops. 

KERN, CHARLES EVERETT. 

Yost Harbaugh, Capt., York Comity, Penna., Associators. 

KESSLER, EDWIN. 

Philip Moses Russell, Surgeon's Mate, 2d Regt. Vt. Line. 

KITTELLE, SUMNER ELY, U. S. Navy. 

Rezin Geer, Capt., killed at Wyoming Massacre. July 3, 1778. 

XNIFFEN, GILBERT CRANFORD. 

Amos Kniffin, Private, N. Y. Militia. 
Joshua Ward, Private, N. Y. Militia. 

KNOWLES, FRANK POWELL. 

Richard Powell, Private, Gloucester County, N. J., Militia. 

KNOX, WILLIAM SALISBURY. 

Joseph Nock, Private, N. H. Militia. 
Job Sherburne, Private, N. H. Militia. 

KREIDLER, EDWARD ALANSON. 

Thomas Buck, Private, Conn. Troops ; Mariner on Privateer 
"Hawk." 

XURTZ, JOHN. 

Moses Brown, Commander, Privateers "General Arnold" and 
"Minerva." 



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LAMB, DANIEL SMITH. 

Jacob Matlack, Private. N. J. [Militia. 

LANE, FRANCIS RANSOM. 

Jesse Eaton, Private, N. J. Troops. 
Ephraim Eaton, Signed Association Pledge. 
Thomas Anderson, Private, N. H. Troops. 
Moses Sargent, Private, Nichol's N. H. Regt. 

LANGWORTHY, CHARLES FORD. 

Joel Wheeler, Private, Putnam's Mass. Regt. 

EARNER, JOFIN BELL. 

Jacob Gideon, Sr., Tnniipeter and Private, Penna [Militia. 

EARNER, PHILIP FILLMORE. 

Jacob Gideon, Sr., Trumpeter and Private, Penna Militia. 

LAUGHLIN, GEORGE McCULLY. 

George McCully, Capt., 3d Penna. Regt. 

Nathaniel Irish, Capt., Flower's Penna. Artillery Artificers. 

LAUGHLIN, JAMES, JR. 

George McCully, Capt., 3d Penna. Regt. 

Nathaniel Irish, Capt., Flower's Penna. Artillery Artificers. • 

LEIDY, AUGUSTUS PERRY. 

Jacob Leidy, ist Lieut., Penna. Line. 

LETCHER, MARION. 

Rhesa Howard, Private, Georgia Militia. 

William Few, Sr., Colonel, Commissary Dept. Ga. Militia. 

LEUPP, FRANCIS ELLINGTON. 

Peter Loop, Lieut., N. Y. State Levies. 

LEWIS, CLIFFORD MORGAN. 

John Smith, Prisoner of War in Sugar House, N. Y. 

LEWIS, FRANK J. 

Jotham Rawlins or Rollins, Private, N. H. Militia. 

LINNELL, CHARLES WINFIELD. 

Uriah Linnell, Private, Sheppard's 3d Alass Continental Foot. 

LIPSCOMB, ANDREW ADGATE. 

John Westcott, Capt., N. J. Artillery. 

LIPSCOMB, LISLE SEATON. 

John Wescott, Capt., N. J. Artillery. 

LIVINGS, THEODORE. 

Mayhew Adams, 2d Major, Norton's Mass. Regt. 

LOCKWOOD, THOMAS WILDMAN. JR. 

Isaac Lockwood, Jr., Private, Conn. Militia. , 



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LONG, OSCAR FITZALAN, U. S. Army. 

Cornelius Mabie, ist Lieut., Wemple's N. Y. Regt. 

LDUCKS, CHARLES. 

George Loucks, Lieut., N. Y. Militia. 

LYMAN, CHARLES. 

Jacob Lyman, Private, Bolton. Conn., Co. at Lexington Alarm. 

LYMAN, CHARLES EDWIN. 

Elisha Lyman, Sergeant, 8tli Comi. Regt. 

M 

^IcBLAIR, CHARLES RIDGELEY. 

Benjamin Bradford Morris, Capt., 8th Harford County Bat- 
talion ; Member Md. Legislature. 
Lvde Goodwin, Surgeon, Nicholas Buxton Moore's Troop of 
'Md. Light Horse. 

.AIcCOY, JOSEPH MELVILLE. 

John Evans, Col., Va. Troops. 

George Musser, Capt., ist Lancaster County, Penna., Bat- 
talion. 

McCULLOH, ROBERT LEMMON. 

George Christian Gleim, Private, Germantown Guards. 
Benjamin Mathias, Private, Penna. Militia. 

McDOUGALL, THOMAS MOWER, U. S. Army. 

Robert Stockton, Major and Quartermaster, N. Y. Militia. 

McGREW, MILTON LOOMIS, U. S. Army. 

Andrew Megrue, Private, Philadelphia Militia. 

McKEAN, JOHN COX. 

Elisha Matthewson, Corporal, ist Conn. Regt. 

McLEAN, HENRY CLAY. 

John McLean, 2d Lieut., Ludington's N. Y. Regt. 

McLEAN, WALLACE DONALD. 

John McLean, 2d Lieut., Ludington's N. Y. Regt. 

McNEILL, ROBERT H. 

George McNeill, Volunteer Chaplain, N. C. Troops at King's 
Mountain. 

MACGILL, WILLIAM REED. 

John Bell Tilden, Lieut., Penna. Line. 

MAGRUDER, CALEB CLARK, JR. 

Nathan Magruder, Meinber Frederick County, Md., Commit- 
tees of Correspondence and Observation. 

Thomas Barbour, Member Orange County. Va., Committee 
of Safety ; Member Va. Convention 1775 ; Colonel, Va. 
Troops. 

MAGRUDER, JOHN HOLMES. 

Samuel Wjide Magruder, 2d Major, 29th Battalion Militia, 
Montgomery County, Md. 



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MARBURY, CHARLES CLAGETT. 

Luke Marbury, Member Committees of Observation and Cor- 
respondence; Colonel, Md. Militia. 

.AL\RCELLUS, ROBERT HARTLEY. 

Isaac Vrooman, Member N. Y. State Assembly 1779. 

MARLATT. CHARLES LESTER. 

Abraham Marlatt, Private, Armand's Partisan Corps. 

MARMION, ROBERT AUGUSTINE, U. S. Navy. 
Esaias Preble, Capt., Mass. Militia. 

MARSH, WILLIAM LOWREY. 

Nathaniel Marsh, Private, Conn, and Mass. Militia. 
John Bradford, Corporal, Conn. Militia. 

MARTIN, FRANK BOSTICK. 

John Martin, Capt., 2d S. C. Line. 

MARTIN, GEORGE GILCHRIST. 

Adams Martin, Capt., 4th Mass. Militia; Member Committee 
of Safety. 

MARTIN, LEE ROY. 

Joseph Burgess, Lieut., Md. Line. 

MARTIN, THOMAS RICAUD. 

Joseph Burgess, Lieut, Md. Line. 

MARVIN, ARBA BRYAN. 

Samuel Bryan, Private, Albany County, N. Y., Militia. 

MASON, EBENEZER ERSKINE. 

Jeremiah Oilman, Lieut.-Col., ist N. H., Militia. 

MASON, JOHN PARKER HALE. 

Jeremiah Gilman, Lieut.-Col., ist N. H. Militia. 

MASON, JOHN TUFTON. 

Jeremiah Gilman, Lieut-Col., ist N. H. Militia. 

MATHEWS, EDWIN SCOTT. 

Samuel Denny, Col., ist Worcester County, Mass., Regt 

MXUS, LOUIS MERVIN, U. S. Army. 

Philip Maus, Private, Philadelphia Militia. 

MAYNARD, GEORGE COLTON. 

Malachi Maynard, Private, Mass. Militia; Member Commir- 

tee of Safety. 
Joseph Booth, Capt., 19th Conn. Militia. 
Josiah Moseley, Private, Mass. Militia. 

MAYNARD, JAMES. 

James Cogswell, Private, Mass. Militia. 

MAYNARD, WILLIAM JAMES. 

Malachi Maynard, Private, Mass. Minutemen ; Member Con- 
way Committee of Public Safety. 
Josiah Moseley, Private, Mass. troops. 



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MELOY, FRANCIS EDWARD. 

Thomas Dawson, Private, Waterbury's Conn. Brigade. 

John Bull, Colonel, Penna. Militia. 

James Nourse, Member Va. House of Burgesses; Paymaster, 

Va. Militia. 
Mary Phillips Bull, Custodian of Supplies and Agent Penna. 

Council of Safety. 

MENKIN, NATHAN DAVIS. 

Benjamin Nones, Major, Staffs of Washington and Lafay- 
ette. 
Hyam Soloman, negotiated War Subsidies of France and 
Holland ; Captive in Prevost Prison, N. Y. 

MEREDITH, WILLIAM MORTON. 

John Wheeler Meredith, Private, Delaware Line. 

MERILLAT, CHARLES HENRY. 

John Boone, Capt., Md. Militia. 

MERRITT, LEONARD A. 

Noah Merritt, Private, Mass. Troops. 

MIDDLETON, JOHNSON VAN DYKE, U. S. Armv. 
Benjamin Johnson, Major, Md. Militia. 
William Greenleaf, Sheriff Suffolk Co., Mass. 

MILLER, BENJAMIN. . 

John Libbey, Private, Wingate's N. H. Regt. 
John Myers or De Mire, Private, N. Y. Militia. 

MILLER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. 

Richard Simmons, Private, Morgan's, Va.. Riflemen. 

MILLS, STEPHEN CROSLEY. 

Benjamin Mills, Capt., Conn. Militia. 

MIRICK, HENRY BROWN. 

Elisha Mirick, Sergeant, Worcester County. Mass., Militia. 

MOORE, ANDREW MOSES, U. S. Navy. 
John Moore, Private, N. C. Troops. 

MOORE, CHARLES. 

John McAllister, Private, N. H. Troops. 
James Aiken, Capt., N. H. Troops. 

MOORE, EDWARD BRUCE. 

William Paine, Private, 8th Mass. Line. ' 

MOORE, FREDERICK McCULLOUGH. 

James Moore, Colonel, N. C. Infantry; Brigadier-General, 
Continental Army. 

MOORE, JOHN HENRY, U. S. Navy. 

Josiah Moore, Lieut., Conn. Continental Regt. 
Joseph Moore, Jr., Lieut., i8th Conn. Regt. 
Ephraim Middlebrook, Lieut., Conn. Militia. 
Daniel Dewey, Capt., ist Sheffield Company, ist Berkshire 
County Regt. Mass. Militia. 



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MOORE, LANGDON. 

Josiah Moore, Lieut., Conn. Continental Regt. 

Joseph Moore, Jr., Lieut., i8th Conn. Regt. 

Daniel Dewey, Capt. ist Sheffield Co., ist Berkshire County 
Regt., Mass. Militia. 

Ephraim Middlebrook, Lieut., Conn. IMilitia, killed in Dan- 
bury Raid, April 27, 1777. 

MORTON, LEVI PARSONS. 

Livy Morton, Private, Mass. 'Militia. 
Justin Parsons, Private, Mass. Militia. 
Naihan Frary, Private, Mass. Militia. 

MOSES, ZEBINA. 

Daniel Moses, Private, Conn. _Militia. 

Moses Grimes, Private, i8th Conn. Regt. 

Eliphalet Curtis, Capt., i8th Conn. Militia; Member Conn. 

Assembly. 
Phineas Scott, Private, Vt. Militia. 
John Kinsley, Private, Vt. Militia. 
Calvin Bingham, Private, Herrick's Regt., Vt. Militia. 

MOULTON, HOSEA BALLOU. 

Noah Moulton, Sergeant, N. H. Troops. 

MUNN, HENRY BENSON. 

Amos Munn, Private. N. J. Militia. 
Phineas Campbell, Private, N. J. Militia. 

MUNROE, CHARLES EDWARD. 

William Monroe, Jr., 3d, Private, Parker's Company of Lex- 
ington, Mass. 
John Harrington, Private, Parker's Co. of Lexington, Mass. 

MYERS, JOHN NORRIS. JR. 

John De Mier, Private, nth Albany, N. Y., Militia. 

NEEDHAM, CHARLES WILLIS. 

Joseph Needham, Private, Mass. Troops. 

NEFF, WALLACE. 

Aaron Scout, Ensign, ist Battalion Philadelphia Militia. 
Rudolph Neff, Capt., Lewis' Philadelphia Foot. 

NEWCOMB, WARREN PUTNAM, U. S. Army. 

Joseph Warren, Major-General, Mass. Militia; killed at 
Bunker Hill. 
' Israel Putnam, Major-General, Continental Army. 

o 

OLMSTED, FERNANDO CORTEZ. 

Ebenezer Olmstead, id Lieut., 5th Conn. Regt. 
John Roberts^ Private, N. Y. Militia. 




JOHN WOART BAYNE, M. D. 

PRESIDENT, 1903-4. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 33 



OWEN, FREDERICK DENISON. 

Robert Denison, Sergeant, Conn. Troops. 

Benjamin Sumner, Private, Conn. Troops; prisoner in Tower 

of London. 
John Sumner, Capt.. Conn. Line. 
Benjamin Owen, Captain, Conn. Militia. 

PARK, WILLIAM GRAY. 

William Anderson, Orderly Sergeant, 6th Penna. Battalion. 

PARKE, JOHN S., U. S. Army. 

Andrew Park, Private, Kent County, Md., Militia. 

PARKER, ANDREW. 

John Hamilton, Capt., Cumberland County, Penna., Militia. 

PARKER, EDMUND SOUTHARD. 

David Doty, Lieut., Bunall's Conn. Continental Infantry. 

PARKER. EDWARD WHEELER. 

Elijah Hyde, Major, 2d Conn. Light Horse. 

PARKER, MYRON MELVIN. 

Robert Parker, Sr., Private, N. H. Militia. 
John Cressy, Private, Conn. Troops. 
Joseph Cross, Private, N. H. Militia. 

PARKER, WILLIAM WHITE WILSON. 

David Doty, Lieut., Conn. Continental Infantry. 

PARSONS, FRANCIS HENRY. 

Ezekiel Williams, Commissary of Prisoners of War; Member 

Conn. Assembly. 
Ezekiel Rice, Jr., Sergeant, Conn. Militia. 
Ephraim Merriam, Fifer, 6th Conn. Line. 
Phineas Hough, Sergeant, Conn. Militia. 

PARSONS, STARR. 

Abraham Parsons, Private, Conn. Militia. 

PATRICK, RUNNION MARTIN. 

Ephraim Woodworth, Capt., 13th Albany County, N. Y., 
Militia. 

PAXTON, WILSON N. 

Thomas Dill, Private, York County, Penna. Militia. 
Mathew Dill, Col., York County, Penna., Militia. 

PEALE, ALBERT CHARLES. 

Charles Wilson Peale, Capt.. Philadelphia Militia; Member of 
Penna. Assembly. 

James Burd, Col.. 4th Lancaster Penna. Battalion. 

Edward Shippen. Chairman Lancaster Committee of Corre- 
spondence. 

PEARCE. WILLIAM HENRY. 

William Pearce, Capt, Dutchess County, N. Y., Militia. 

PEARSON, RAYMOND A. 

Benjamin Pearson, Drummer, Fifer, and Sergeant, Mass. 
Militia. 



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PECK, DAVID BRAINERD. 

Lament Peck, Private, 2d Regt. Conn. Minutemen and 8th 

Regt. Continental Line. 
Selah Scovill, Douglass' Conn., Regt. 

PECK, WILLIAM H. 

Jesse Peck, Corporal, Bradley's Conn. Regt. 

PERHAM, AURESTES SIDNEY. 

Eleazer Cole, Sergeant, Mass. Militia. 

PESCUD, PETER FRANCISCO. 

Peter Francisco, Private, Morgan's and De Fleury's Com- 
mands. 

PHILLIPS, EDSON. 

Gideon Phillips, Sergeant, Conn. Militia and Line. 

PITTS, GEORGE BASSETT. 

John Bassett, Private, 5th Conn. Militia. 

PLUMB, HENRY BLACKMAN. 

Jacob Plumb, Capt, Conn. Privateer. 

Charles Plumb, Mariner, Conn. Man-of-War. "Oliver Crom- 
well." 
Elisha Blackman, Private, 5th Conn. Regt. 

PLUME, SAMUEL WINTER. 

Isaac Plume, Ensign, N. J. Minutemen. 

Joseph Winter, Ensign, N. Y. Militia ; Secretary N. Y. Com- 
mittee of Safety. 

POLKINHORN. HENRY BIRTH. 

James Askie, Sergeant, 8th Penna. Line. 

POWELL, WILLIAM THACKARA. 

Richard Powell, Private, N. J. Militia. 

PRENTISS, DANIEL WEBSTER, JR. 

Joseph Greenleaf, Member Boston Committee of Correspond- 
ence, Safety and Inspection. 

PREWITT, GEORGE THOMPSON. 

Byrd Prewitt, Private, Parker's 5th Va. Regt. 

PRINDLE, FRANKLIN COGSWELL, U. S. Navy. 

Zalmon Prindle, Private, 8th, sth and 2d Conn. Regts. 

PROCTOR, REDFIELD, U. S. Senator. 

Leonard Proctor, Lieut., Mass. Militia. 

PULSIFER, WOODBURY. 

Jonathan Woodbury, Col., Mass. Militia. 

Moses Rust, Private, 3d Co. Mass. Coast Defence Guards. 

PUTNAM, ROBERT MYERS SHOEMAKER. 

Johan Jost (or Han Yoost) Shoemaker, Major, Tryon, 

County, N. Y., Militia. 
Michael Myers, Private, N. Y. Militia. 
Henry Herter, Capt., Bellinger's N. Y. Regt. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 35 



R 

RAINES, THOMAS RALEIGH. 

Giles Raines, 2d Lieut., 15th Va. Infantry. 

RANKIN, JOHN McCLURE. 

Hugh Rankin, Private, 8th Penna. Line. 
William McClure, Surgeon, 6th N. C. Regt 

RAVENEL, WILLIAM DE CHASTIGNIER. 

Rene Ravenel, Private, Marion's Brigade S. C. State Troops. 
Samuel Du Bose, Adjutant, Craven County, S. C. Regt. 
Peter Sinkler, Private, Marion's Brigade; prisoner. 

RAWLES, WILLIAM GARRETSON. 

John Garretson, Private, N. J. Militia. 

John De Witt, ist Lieut., N. Y. Militia and Associated Ex- 
empts. 

REED, HENRY WTLLARD. 

Thomas Washington, Lieut., Grayson's Regt. and Lee's Light 
Dragoons. 

REED, WILLIAM FIELD. 

Thomas Durfee, Ensign, 3d Co., Tiverton, R. I. Militia. 

REEVE, FELIX ALEXANDER. 

Felix Earnest, Lieut., N. C. Vols. 

REILY, PHILIP KEY. 

William Reily, Capt, 4th Md. Contmental Regt., retired as 
Major. 

REYNOLDS, ELMER R. 

Allen Reynolds, Private, Warner's Conn. Regt. 

RHEES, WILLIAM JONES. ., ^^ ^ 

Benjamin Loxley, Major, ist Philadelphia Artillery; Member 

Committee of Safety. 
Evan Evans, Col., Penna. Militia. 
John Lukins, Surveyor-General of Penna. 

RTCE, CHARLES O. ^^ ^ 

Jedediah Rice, Sergeant, Gilman's N. H. Regt. 
Svlvanus Hastings, Private, N. H. Line. 
Benjamin Spalding, Capt., Nichols' N. H. Regt. 

RICH, WILLIAM J. 

William Nutt, Private, N. H. Militia. 

RICHARDSON, CHARLES WILLIAMSON. 
John Boone, Captain, Md. Mihtia. 

RICHARDSON, JAMES WENTWORTH. 

Moses Richardson, Private, Mass. Militia. 

RICHARDSON, MASON NOBLE. 

John Boone, Captain, Md. Militia. 



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ROBBINS, HENRY ALFRED. 

Aaron Robbins, Private, Williams' Mass. Regt. 
Noah Coleman, Surgeon, 2d Conn. Line. 
John Bell Tilden, Lieut., Penna. Line. 

ROBBINS, ZENAS COLEMAN. 

Aaron Robbins, Private, Williams' Mass. Regt. 
Noah Coleman, Surgeon, 2d Conn. Line. 

RODMAN, HUGH, U. S. Navy. 

James Taylor, Sergeant-Major, Va. Line. 
George Taylor, Member Va. Convention, 1775. 
Jonathan Taylor, Oflficer of Va. Militia. 

ROSS. MANSFIELD AMES. 

Robert Ross, Private, 4th Penna. Battalion. 

ROSS. SAMUEL. » 

James Askie, Sergeant, 8th Penna. Line. 

s 

ST. CLAIR, FRANCIS OSMOND. 

James St. Clair, Sr., Sergeant, N. H. Troops. 

SAMPSON, JOHN RUSSELL. 

Richard Sampson, Private, 3d Va. Regt. 

Amos Dudley, Private, Talcott's Conn. Regt. 

Jacob Baldwin, Private, Conn. Militia; Lieut., U. S. Navy. 

Byrd Rogers, Lieut., Va. Militia. 

Charles Goodman, Private, Va. Militia. 

SAMSON, HENRY WHITEFIELD. 

Abisha Samson, Sergeant, Cotton's Mass. Regt. 

John Kendrick, Private, Mass. Militia, Lexington Alarm. 

James Askie, Sergeant, 8th Penna. Line. 

SARGEANT, THADDEUS BELL. 

John Sargeant, Private, Vermont Militia. 

SARGENT, WILLIAM GEORGE. 

Thomas Sargent, Surgeon, Mass. Troops, Penobscot Expedi- 
tion. 
Thomas Herrick Cole, Private, Mass. Line. 

SATTERLEE, RIGHT REV. HENRY YATES. 

Benedict Satterlee, Private, Conn. Vols, at Wyoming Mas- 
sacre. 

Christopher Yates, Member Committee of Safety; Lieut. Col., 
Albany County, N. Y., Militia. 

Jacob Lansing, Jr., Col., Albany County, N. Y., Militia. 

Jacob Gerritre Lansing, 2d Lieut., Albany County, N. Y., 
Militia. 

SAXTON, HAROLD NEWELL. 

William Saxton, Private, Mass. Continental Troops. 

SAXTON, RUFUS, U. S. Army. 

David Saxton, Private, Mass. Militia. 
Salmon White, Lieut, Mass. Militia. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 3T 



SCHOFIELD, EMILE H. 

William Schofield, ist Lieut., 5th Penna. Regt. 

SEARLE, WILLIAM DANIEL. 

John Cragin, Member Temple, N. H. Committee of Cor- 
respondence and Safety ; Sergeant, N. H. Militia. 

SEEBER, CHESTER. ^ 

Christopher P. Yates, Member Tryon County, N. Y., Com- 
mittee of Safety; Colonel, Militia. 

William Seeber, Major, ist Battalion Tryon County, N. Y., 
Militia. 

Anthony Van Vechten, Member Tryon County, N. Y., Com- 
mittee of Safety; Adjutant, Militia. 
' Jelles Fonda, Commissary, Tryon County, N. Y., Militia ; rec- 
ognized patriot of Mohawk Valley. 

SELLERS, HORACE WELLS. 

Nathan Sellers, Ensign, Penna. Flying Camp. 

John Sellers, Member Penna. Provincial Assembly. 

George Robert Twelves Hewes, Member "Boston Tea Party ;" 

Privateersman ; Private, Mass. Militia. 
Charles Wilson Peale, Capt., Penna. Militia. 

SEWALL, EUGENE D. 

Ebenezer Gore, Capt., 3d Lincoln County, Mass., Militia. 
Nathaniel Leeman, Sergeant, McComb's, Mass., Militia. 

SEYMOUR, HENRY. 

Eleazer Edgerton, 2d Lieut., Stark's N. H. Brigade. 

SHANDS. AURELIUS RIVES. 

William Shands, Sr., Sergeant, Lawson's Va. Regt. 

SHAW, JOHN W. 

William Shaw, Member Northumberland County, Penna., 
Committee of Safety. 

SHELDON, CLIFFORD HENRY, U. S. Navy. 
David Jepson, Sr., Private, Mass. Troops. 

SHELDON, JAMES, JR. 

Nathaniel Palmer, Sr., Private, Conn. Militia. 
Amos Denison, Ensign, Stanton's Co., 8th Conn. Regt. 
James Sheldon, Ensign, Pawtuxet Rangers of R. I . 
^ Simeon Alexander, Lieut., Mass. Troops; Member Committee 
of Safety of Northfield, Mass. 

SHELLEY, WILLIAM CARLYSLE. 

James McElwee, Private, Va. Riflemen. 

SHEPARD, SETH, Chief Justice Court of Appeals, D. C. 

Samuel McDowell, Colonel, Augusta County, Va., Militia; 
Member House of Delegates. 

John Andrews, Capt., 5th Cumberland County, Penna.. Bat- 
talion. 

John Andrews, Private, Sth Penna. Line. 

SHERMAN. CHESTER TYLER. 

John Sherman, Private, Mass. Troops. 



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SHERMAN, JOHN. 

Daniel Sherman, Member Committee of Safety ; Member 
Conn. General Assembly. 

SHUTE, DANIEL KERFOOT. 

William Shute, Col., N. J. Militia; Asst. Commissarv-Gene'ral 
N. J. Line. 

SILL, HOWARD. 

Richard Sill, Capt.. Conn. Line; Aide to General Sterling, 
with rank of Major. " 

SKILLMAN, HENRY MARTYN, JR. 

Mathew Scott, Capt., 13th Penna. Regt. 

Isaac Webb, Capt., Va. Line. * 

SMITH, JOHN LEWIS. 

Charles Lewis, Col., Augusta County, Va., Troops at Point 

Pleasant ; Member Va. House of Burgesses. 
Thomas Lewis, Delegate, Va. Colonial Convention, 1775. 

SMITH, JOHN SPEED. 

James Speed, Lieut., Cocke's Va. Militia. 
Archibald Woods, Capt., Va. Militia. 
Samuel Gill, Capt., Va. Line. 

SMITH, ROBERT ATWATER. 

John Smith, Private, Conn. Militia. 

Ephraim Smith, Private, Conn. Militia. 

Ebenezer Clark, Jr., Corporal, Sheldon's Conn. Light Horse. 

Hezekiah Bassett, Sr., Private, 17th Conn. Militia. 

Medad Atwater, Private, 17th Conn. Militia. 

David Atwater, Private, Skinner's Conn. Light Horse. 

SMITH, SIDNEY FULLER. 

Francis Smith, Corporal, Beverly, Mass., Minutemen. 
Zebediah Chandler, Corporal, Mass. Militia. 

SMITH, THOMAS TURNER. 

Philip Bush, Deputy Quartermaster-General at Winchester, 

Va., in charge of Hessian Prisoners. 
Richard Buckner, ^Member Westmoreland, Va.. Committee of 
Safety. 

SOLGER, FREDERICK REINHOLD. 

Joseph Budd, Major. 22d Regt. N. J. State Troops. ^ 

SOMERVELL. WILLIAM HOWE. 

James Somervell, Capt., Md. Line. 

SORG, PAUL ARTHUR. 

Jonathan Bayard Smith, Lieut. Col, 4th Philadelphia Bat- 
talion. 

SPANGLER, ALBERT DANIEL. 

Joseph Spangler, Major. Penna. Militia. 

STANLEY, DAVID SHERIDAN, U. S. Army. 

Nathaniel Stanley, Private. Spencer's Conn. Regt. 
Conrad Peterson, Private, Va. Line. 
Joel Jones, Lieut. Col., Conn. Line. 



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STAPLES, SAMUEL GRANVILLE. 

Samuel Granville Staples, Major, Va. Troops. 
Abram Penn, Colonel, Va. Troops. 

STEBBINS, DONALD CARLOS. 

David Stebbins, 2d Lieut., 5th Regt., Hampshire County. Mass-, 
Militia. 

STEBBINS, JOHN WILLIAMS. 

David Stebbins, Lieut., Hampshire County, Mass.. Militia. 

STEEVER, ED'GAR ZELL, U. S. Army. 
Daniel Steever, Private, Penna. Line. 

STERNBERG, GEORGE MILLER, U. S. Army. 

Nicholas Sternberg, Member Committee of Safety of Scho- 
harie County, N. Y. 

STERRETT, REV. JAMES MACBRIDE. 

Timothy Green, Capt., Penna. Flying Camp. 
James Bovard, ist Lieut, Penna. Militia. 

STEVENS, EUGENE, ENSIGN. . . 

Otho Stevens, Private, Olcott's Regt. Vt. Militia. 
Simeon Stevens, Capt., N. H. and Vt. Troops. 

STEVENS, WILLIAM X. . , t • 

Jeduthan Stevens, Private, Mass. Continental Line. 

STEWART. CHARLES WEST. . 

John Galloway, Private, Cumberland County Alilitia, 8th Bat- 
talion Penna. Troops. 

STEWART. J. McDonald. „ 

Greenleaf Clark, Capt., Newburyport, Mass., Silver Greys 
Militia Company. 

STOCKING, EDGAR BLOOD. 

Abner Stocking, Capt., Conn. Troops. . 

George Stocking, Sergeant. Conn. Minutemen at Lexington 
Alarm. 

STODDARD, JOSIAH CLARK. 

John Stoddard. Private. Wolcott s Conn. Regt. 

SUMMERS, MILO COLBURN. 

Richard Cutter, Private, N. H. Militia. 

SWARTWOUT, FRANK AUSTIN 

Samuel Swartwout, Signer of Revolutionary Pledge. 

SWEITZER, CHARLES McGREGOR. 

Joseph Bowman, Capt., ist N. C. Infantry. 

T 

TAINTER, CHARLES SUMNER. 

Eaires Tainter, Private. Mass. Militia. 
Samuel Bernard, 2d, Major, Mass. Militia. 
William Sanger, Private, Mass. Militia _ 
Daniel Goodnow. 2d. Private, Mass. Militia. 



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THOMPSON, JOHN BARKER. 

William Broadus, Lieut., Va. Continentals. 

THOMPSON, MAGNUS STRIBLING. 

William Broadus, Lieut., Va. Continentals. 

THOMPSON, WILLL\M BAKER. 

Enoch Baker, Private, Mass. Troops. 

THOMPSON, WILLL\M MILLS, JR. 

William Broadus, Lieut., Va. Continentals. 

TIRRELL, ARTHUR HOLLIS. 

Joseph Winch, Capt., Bullard's Regt., Mass. Militia. 

TITCOMB, JOHN WHEELOCK. 

John Titcomb, Private, N. H. Militia. 

TODD. WILLIAM EDWARD. 

John Todd. Private, N. H. Militia. 
Abijah Smith, Capt., N. H. Militia. 

TODD, WILLIAM EDWARD, JR. 

John Todd, Private, N. H. Militia. 

Abijah Smith, Capt., Baldwin's N. H. Regt. 

TOTTEN, GEORGE OAKLEY, JR. 

John Outwater. Capt., Bergen County, N. J. Militia. 

TOWER, GEORGE EDWARD, U. S. Navy. 

Reuben Tower, Sergeant, Ira Allen's Regt., Vt. Militia. 

TOWNSEND, EDWIN FRANKLIN, U. S. Army. 
Daniel Townsend, Private, N. Y. Troops. 

TREUTLEN. JOHN FLETCHER. 

John Adams Treutlen, Member First Provincial Congress of 
Ga., 1775; First Governor of Georgia. 

TRUE, FREDERICK WILLIAM. 

James Hyde, 1st Lieut., Conn. Line. 

TULEY, ROWAN BOONE. 

Israel Crane, Private and Cornet, N. J. Light Horse. 
John Peters, Private, Va. Militia. 

TULLOCH, HENRY VANDERBILT. 

Edward Evans, Adjutant, 2d N. H. Militia. 

TURNER. MOLYNEAUX L. 

Elisha Woodbury, Capt.. Stark's N. H. Regt. 
Isaac Turner, Lieut., 2d Conn. Line. 
Mathew Turner. Private, Conn. Militia. 

TUTTLE, ALBERT HENRY. 

Amos Tuttle. Private, Allen's Vt. Regt. 
Ketchel Reed, Sr., Private, gVn N. Y. Regt. 

TYLER, CADWELL. 

Dan Cadwell. Member Pittsfield Committee of Safety; Capt, 

Mass. Militia. 
Enoch Haskin, Private, Mass. Troops. 




JOHN PAUL EARNEST. 
PRESIDENT, 1904-1905. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 41 



TJ 

UPHAM, WILLIAM CLARENCE. 

Asa Goodell, Private, Conn. Militia. 

V 

VAN DEUSEN, ALBERT HARRISON. 

Caspar Van Deusen, Private, Graham's Dutchess County, 

N. Y., Regt. 
Robert Van Deusen, Private, Livingston's Albany County, 
N. Y. Regt. 

VAN DYKE, HARRY WESTON. 

Abner Weston, Corporal, Mass. Militia. 
Jonah Washburn, Lieut., Mass. Militia. 
Josiah Edson, Private, Conn. Troops. 

VAN MATER, PAUL RAPELYE. 

Gilbert Van Mater, Private, N. J. Militia. 

VAN REYPEN, WILLIAM KNICKERBOCKER, U. S. Navy. 
Daniel Van Reypen, Lieut., Hudson County, N. J., Militia. 

VAUGHAN, GEORGE TULLEY. 

James Nevil, Commander Amherst County, Va. Militia ; Mem- 
ber Va. Committee of Safety. 

VINCENT, THOMAS McCURDY, U. S. Army. 

John McCurdy, Lieut., Wilson's Contmental Battalion of 

Penna. . 

David McCurdy, Private, Cumberland County, Penna. Mihtia. 

VOORHEES, JOHN HUNN. 

John Hunn, Capt, Penna. Privateer "Security. 

w 

WADDELL, HUGH. 

Francis Nash, Brigadier-General, N. C. Troops. 
Alfred Moore, Sr., Capt., ist N. C. Line. 
John Pugh Williams, Col, 7th N. C. Line. 

WAIN WRIGHT, DALLAS BACHE. tt c- o . 

Richard Bache, Comptroller of Penna. I775-I776; U. S. Post- 
master General. , , 1 j 
Benjamin Franklin, signer Declaration of Independence. 

WALCOTT, CHARLES DOOLITTLE. 

Benjamin Stewart Walcott, Sr., ist Lieut., R. I. Troops. 
George Doolittle, Sergeant, Conn. Troops. 

WALKER, ERNEST GEORGE. 

Benjamin Berry, Private, N. H. Militia. 

WALKER, JOSEPH HENRY. 

Joseph Walker, Private, Mass. Mihtia. 



42 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY 



WALKER, PHILIP. 

Seth Pomeroy, Member Mass. Provincial Congress; Volun- 
teer at Bunker Hill; named Senior Brigadier-General by 
Continental Congress. 

WALKER, ROBERT JOHN. 

Jonathan Hoge Walker, Private, Penna. Troops. 

Richard Bache, Register General of Penna. ; Member Board 

of War; U. S. Postmaster General. 
Benjamin Franklin, signer Declaration of Independence. 

WALL, JOSEPH STILES. , 

Richard Sparks, Sergeant, pth Penna. Line. 

WALLACE, FREDERICK ASHBY. 

John Ashby, Capt., Culpeper Minutemen and 3d Va. Regt. 

WALTER, HENRY MADISON. 

Caspar Ham, Private, 6th Dutchess County, N. Y. Militia. 
Joseph Wooley, Private, 6th Dutchess County, N. Y. Militia. 

WARNER, BRAINARD HENRY. 

Ashbel Upsen, Sergeant, 26th Conn. Militia. 
Phineas Castle, Capt., Conn. Militia. 

WARNER, BRAINARD HENRY, JR. 

James Warner, Capt., 27th Conn. Militia. 

WARREN, LEVI SPAULDING. 

Samuel Younglove, Sergeant, N. Y. troops. 

WATKINS, SAMUEL EVANS. 

Thomas Watkins, Capt., Md. Artillery. 

WEED, WALTER HARVEY. 

Nathan Weed, Lieut., pth Conn. Militia. 

WEIDA. CHARLES ARTHUR. 

Peter Weida, Private, Penna. Militia. 
Leonard Stump, Private, Penna. Militia. 
Michael Weida, Private, Penna. Militia. 

WELLS, HENRY WELSH. 

Rudolph Spangler. Capt.. 6th Co.. York County, Penna., 
Militia. 

WETHERELL. WILLIAM PRATT. 

Apollos Eddy, Private, Mass. Militia. 
William Pratt, Lieut., Olney's R. I. Regt. 
Hilkiah Peirce, Corporal, 9th Mass. Regt. 

WHEELER, CHARLES SULLY. 

John Wheeler, Surgeon, N. C. Troops. 

WHEELWRIGHT, JERE HUNGERFORD. 

Abraham Wheelwright, Private, Knox's Artillery Regt. 
Thomas Hungerford, Lieut, 3d Va. Regt. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 43 



WHIPPLE, HENRY HARPER. 

- Jonathan Pettibone, Jr., ist Lieut., 2d Conn. Mihtia. 
Jonathan Pettibone, St., Col., i8th Conn. Mihtia. 

WHIPPLE, ODELL LONG. 

Jonathan Pettibone, Jr., ist Lieut, 2d Conn. Mihtia. 
Jonathan Pettibone, Sr., Col., i8th Conn. Mihtia. 

WHIPPLE, WILLIAM BARTLETT. 

Jonathan Pettibone, Jr., 1st Lieut., 2d Conn. Mihtia. 
Jonathan Pettibone, Sr., Col., i8th Conn. Mihtia. 

WHITAKER, EDWARD WASHBURN. 

Amos Whitaker, Private, Mass. Mihtia. 
Richard Whitaker, Corporal, Mass. Mihtia. 

WHITE, FLETCHER. , „ , ,r r, _. 

James White, Private, 7th and 8th Va. Regts. 

WHITEHEAD, MORTIMER, JR. 

Aaron Whitehead, Private, N. J. Mihtia. 

WHITFORD, DANIEL WILLIAMSON. ^ . ^. ^ ... 

Richard Caswell, Col. of Minutemen; Brigadier General N. 

C. Troops; Governor; Comptroller General; Delegate to 
Continental Congress. 

WHITNEY, CHARLES FRANCIS. ^^ • • it? ^ 

John Francis, Capt., Wethersfield, Conn. Provisional Regt. 

WIGHT, JOHN BREWER. , ^.^^ c. . t 

Andrew Buchanan. Brigadier General, Md. State Iroops, 

Member Baltimore Committee of Observation. 
Nahun Wight, Lieut. Mass. Line. 

WIGHT, LEWIS DAVENPORT. 

Thomas Davenport. Minuteman; Sergeant, Mass. Mihtia. 

AVIGHT, LLOYD BUCHANAN. 

Nahun Wight, Lieut., Mass. Line. t ^^c 

Andrew Buchanan, Brigadier-General, Md. State Iroops, 
Member Baltimore Commission of Observation. 

AVILKINSON, AHAB GEORGE. 

Ahab Wilkinson, Private, R. I. Mihtia. 
John Wilkinson. Lieut. R. I. Militia. 
Henry Jencks, Capt., R. I. Mihtia. 

WILKINSON. ERNEST. . ,. ^ , ,^, ,.- r.„.r.l 

James Wilkinson, Brevet Brigadier General, Clothier General, 

Continental Army; Secretary to Board of War. 
Robert Ancrews, Chaplain. Continental Army. 

WILL, JOSEPH BENSON. 

George Will, Adjutant, 6th Penna. Line. 

WILLARD, HENRY KELLOGG. 

Steven Rowe Bradley, Major, Conn. Mihtia. 



44 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY 



WILLCOX ORLANDO BOLIVER, U. S. Army. 
John Willcox, Private, Conn. Militia. 

WILLIAMS, LOUIS LAVAL. 

Jacint Laval, Subaltern, Counte de Rochambeau's French 

Auxiliary Army. 
William McCottry, Capt., Marion's Brigade of Mounted Rifle- 
men, S. C. 

WILSON, DOWNES LORRAINE, U. S. Navy. 

William Moulder, 2d Lieut., 4th Penna. Battalion. 

WINDOM, WILLIAM DOUGLAS. 

Josiah Hatch, Private and Surgeon's Mate, Mass. Troops. 
Zephaniah Hatch, Private, Conn. Militia. 

WINTER, ALPHEUS, JR. 

Joseph Winter, Private, Conn. Militia. 
Richard Fletcher, Lieut., Conn. Troops. 
Simons Walker, Private, 6th Conn. Regt. 

WINTER, JOHN GANO. 

Joseph Winter, Ensign, N. Y. Militia; Secretary N. Y. Com- 
mittee of Safety. 

WINTER, MAHLON ALPHEUS. 

Joseph Winter, Private, Conn. Militia. 

WITTEN, JAMES WILLIAM. 

Thomas Witten, Ensign, Preston's Va. Regt. 

WOODMAN, FRANCIS JOSEPH. 

Johnathan Burrows, Orderly Sergeant, rst N. H. Regt. 

WOODWARD. FRED EUGENE. 

Samuel Woodward, Private, Jones' Mass. Regt. 

WOODWARD. SAMUEL WALTER. 

Samuel Woodward, Private, Jones' Mass. Rgt. 

WOOSTER, WALTER MALLERY. 

John Bishop, Private, ist N. H. Regt. 

WRIGHT, JOHN WOMACK. U. S. Army. 
John Wright, Capt., 2d Ga. Regt. 

WRIGHT. MARCUS JOSEPH. 

John Wright, Capt., 2d Ga. Regt. 

Y 

YATES. ARTHUR WOLCOTT, U. S. Army. 
Eliphalet Hull, Private. N. Y. Militia. 

YEAGER, THOMAS DAVID. 

Henry Yeager, ist Sergeant, Berks County. Penna.. Asso- 
ciators. 




WILLIAM HAMILTON BAYLY. 
PRESIDENT, 1905-1906. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 45 



YEAGER, THOMAS HOOD. 

Henry Yeager, ist Sergeant, Berks County, Penna. Asso- 
ciators. 

YELLOTT, ROBERT EDWARD LEE. 

John Coleman, Ensign, 2d Va. Regt. 

YOUNG, JOSEPH WILLIAM. 

Jeremiah Jackson, Lieut., 4th Mass. Line. 



Iln fiDemortam. 



DECEASED MEMBERS, WITH DATES OF DEATHS. 



Abert, Charles August lo, 1897. 

Abert, Sylvanus Thayer Augiist 12, 1903. 

Addison, Rev. Thomas Grafton April 2, 1896. 

Alden, William Francis October 12, 1898. 

Anderson, James Thomas, U. S. Army May 12, 1904. 

Annin, William Edwards March 26, 1903 

Baldwin, Dudley July 10, 1896 

Ball, Ebenezer Burgess April 12, 1900 

Ball, Joseph Josiah Gilbert 1901 

Bartlett, John Russell, U. S. Navy November 22, 1904, 

Bates, Francis Henry, U. S. Army August 12, 1895 

Bayne, John Woart May 17, 1905 

Beale, Charles Frederick Tififany September i, 1901 

Biscoe, Henry Lawson April 4, 1905 

Boutelle, Charles Addison, U. S. Representative May 21, 1901 

Bowman, John Bryan September 21, 1891 

Boynton, Henry Van Ness June 3, 1905 

Brackett, Albert Gallatin, U. S. Army June 25, 1896 

Bradley, George Lothrop March 26, 1906 

Bragg, Walter Lawrence August 21, 1891 

Breckinridge, Samuel Miller May 28, 1891 

Britton, Alexander Thompson July 7, 1899, 

Burgess, Charles Hyde March 7, 1904 

Burnett, Swan Moses January 18, 1906 

Butts, Joseph Waddell March 27, 1902 

Cabell, William Daniel February 18, 1904 

Carhart, Albert December 30, 1897 

Carpenter, William Lewis, U. S. Army July 10, 1898 

Carrington, Edward Clement June 3, 1892 

Carter, Alfred Ball March 11, 1901 

Chandler, Hiram Guernsey October i, 1906, 

Channell, Charles Stewart August 24, 1906. 

Channell, Leon Lelaune August 29, 1901 

Chase, Constantine, U. S. Army September 20. 1902, 

Childs, Asaph King July 17, 1902 

Clark, George Lafayette March 13, 1895 

Clarke, Daniel Boone June 3, 1906 

Clarke, Isaac Edwards January 9, 1907 

Clarke, Powhatan Henry, U. S. Army July 21, 1893 



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Crissey, Sardis Little April 28, 1906 

Croissant, John Dempster February 12, 1906 

Cutler, Lyman Bryce July 14, 1903 

Davidson, Francis Snelling March 19, 1904 

Dana, James Jackson, U. S. Army September 15, 1898 

Danenhower, William Weaver May 28,1894 

Dean, Mills April 5, 1896 

Dent, Josiah October 29, 1899 

Dickson, William Mallory October 26, 1899 

Doolittle, George October 24, 1897 

Dorsey, James Owen February 4, 1895 

Earll, Robert Edward March 19, 1896 

Emery, Mathew Gault October 12, 1901 

Field, Charles William April 20, 1892, 

Finckel, De Vin August 20, 1892, 

Flagg, Arthur Ingersoll September 13, li 

Flagg, Edmund November i, 1890. 

Flint, Weston April 6, 1906. 

Forbush, Abial Abbott March 2, i8p8 

French, Walter Henry August 16, 1904 

Garnett, Henry Wise July 10, 1897 

Gist, George Washington November 9, 1891 

Godwin, Harry Post March 30, 1900. 

Goode, George Brown September 6, 1896, 

Gordon, Joseph Claybaugh April 12, 1903 

Gordon, Morton March 12, 1892 

Graham. Lawrence Pike, U. S. Army September 12, 190S 

Greer, James Augustin, U. S. Navy June 17, 1904 

Gwyer, William Augustus December 15, 1905 

Hagner, Peter Valentine. U. S. Army March 11, 1893 

Hall, Henry Douglass July 13, 1903 

Halsted, John Jacob February 21, 1905 

Hatch, Thomas Edwards July i, 1894. 

Hazen, Rev. Allen May 12, 1898 

Henry, William Wirt January 5, 1901 

Herron. William Anderson May 6, 1900 

Hewit, Very Rev. Augustine Francis July 3, 1897 

Heyl, Edward Miles, U. S. Army January 2, 18^5 

HoflFman, Walter James November 8, 1899 

Hord, William Taliaferro, U. S. Navy April i, 1901 

Howard, James Ross November 22, 1892, 

Hubbell, William Wheeler 1902. 

Hunt, Alfred Epher April 1899, 

Irvine, Samuel I February 25, 1901 

Jackson, Stephen Alonzo March 4, 1892 

Jennings, Jefferson Harry March 11, 1906 

Johnson, Bradley Tyler April 19, 1903 

Johnson, James Bowen January 10, 1899 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 



49 



Johnson, Rev. James Gibson March 

Johnson, John Burgess, U. S. Army April 

Johnson, Lorenzo M November 

Johnston, Joseph Eggleston March 

Jouett, James Edward, U. S, Navy September 

Judd, Orange December 

Kimball, David March 

Kimberly, Lewis Ashiield, U. S. Navy January 

Kimmel, Rev. Ira Wells June 

Knox, George William March 

Kramer, Rev. Samuel August 

Larner, Noble Danforth April 

Lee, William March 

Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh. U. S. Repre- 
sentative October 

Leoser, Charles McKnight February 

Lockwood, Henry Hayes, U. S. Navy December 

Loring, George Bailey September 

Lothrop, John Parker September 

Lowdermilk, William Harrison December 

McDonald, Marshall September 

McDuffie, John Van Middlesworth November 

McKean, Henry Benjamin March 

Mackall, Louis April 

Mackey, Franklin H November 

Maclay, Cyrus Culbertson August 

Mansur, Charles Henry April 

Marsh, Charles Welles June 

Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham, U. S. Army. .. .January 

Meloy, William Augustus September 

Meredith, William Luff June 

Merrill, Henry Clay February 

Mitchell, Thomas July 

Norton, Galen Griffin September 

Norton, William Theodore May 

O'Connor, Arthur Hill July 

Ogden, Herbert Gouverneur February 

Onthank, Charles Washington October 

Penrose, Thomas Neall, U. S. Navy February 

Peyton, John Lewis May 

Phelps, Thomas Stowell, U. S. Navy January 

Phillips, Calvin Tilden January 

Porter, David Dixon, U. S. Navy February 

Post, Philip Sidney, U. S. Representative January 

Postlethwaite, William Morton, U. S. Army January 

Poston, Charles Debrille November 

Prentiss, Daniel Webster November 

Proctor, John Robert December 

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50 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY 

Prouty, Cheney Russell November 24, 

Randolph, Thomas Peter June 29, 

Rankin, Rev. Jeremiah Eames November 28, 

Reed, Wilson Gurley April 17, 

Riley, Owen June 5, 

Robinsbn, Samuel Augustine November 21, 

Saunders, Lorin M .- May 15, 

Sayles, Henry Clay January 19, 

Scott, John Witherspoon November 29, 

Seely, Franklin Austin February 6, 

Sherman, Roger September 19, 

Singleton, William Reynolds February 23, 

Skillman, Thomas Thompson January 11, 

Slaughter, Mercer May 10, 

Smith, Frank Birge December 21, 

Smith, Francis Hickox August 14, 

Stanley, David Sloane, U. S. Army March 13, 

Stanton, Joshua Otis April 9, 

Storm, Francis Eugene July 2, 

Strong, William, Justice U. S. Supreme Court August 19, 

Tallmadge, Rev. Thomas DeWitt April 12, 

Taylor, Francis M June 12, 

Thom, George, U. S. Army " June 29, 

Toler, Washington Nelson May 17, 

Townsend, Edward Davis, U. S. Army May 10, 

Vance, Zebulon Baird, U. S. Senator April 14, 

Warner, Joseph Ritner June 24, 

Washington, James BarroU March 16, 

Washington, Thornton Augustin July 10, 

Watrous, Benjamin Prentis December 16, 

Webster, William Holcomb March 23, 

Weeks, Joseph Dame December 26, 

Wheeler, Joseph, U. S. Army January 25, 

White, Ashton Stoodley Hall March 26, 

Whitney, Harvey Brooks August 16, 

Wight, Otis Caleb October 19, 

Winlock, William Crawford September 20, 

Witman, Henry Orth February 13, 

Worden, John Lorimer, U. S. Navy October 18, 



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CONSTITUTION. 



ARTICLE I. * 

NAME, 

The uame of this Society shall be The District op 
Columbia Society op the Sons of the American 
Revolution. 

ARTICLE II. 

OBJECTS. 

The objects of this Society shall be to perpetuate the 
memory of the men, who, by their services or sacrifices dur- 
ing the war of the American Revolution, achieved the Inde- 
pendence of the American people ; to unite and promote fel- 
lowship among their descendants; to inspire them and the 
community at large with a more profound reverence for the 
principles of the Government founded by our forefathers; 
to encourage historical research in relation to the Amer- 
ican Revolution; to acquire and preserve the records of the 
individual services of the patriots of the War, as well as 
documents, relics and landmarks ; to mark the scenes of the 
Revolution by appropriate memorials; to celebrate the an- 
niversaries of the prominent events of the War; to foster 
true patriotism ; to maintain and extend the institutions of 
American freedom ; and to carry on the purposes expressed 
in the preamble to the Constitution of our country, and the 
injunctions of Washington in his farewell address to th^ 



ancestor who was at all times unfailing in his loyalty to 



62 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY 

and rendered actual service in the cause of American Inde- 
pendence, either as an officer, soldier, seaman, marine, 
militiaman or minute-man, in the armed forces of the Con- 
tinental Congress or of any one of the several Colonies or 
States ; or as a signer of the Declaration of Independence ; 
or as a member of a Committee of Safety or Correspond- 
ence ; or as a member of any Continental, Provincial or Colo- 
nial Congress or Legislature ; or ds a civil officer, either of 
one of the Colonies or States or of the National Government ; 
or as a recognized patriot ^N\\o performed actual service by 
overt acts of resistance to the authority of Great Britain. 
He may be elected a member of this Society, provided, upon 
due investigation, he shall be found to be acceptable. 

Sec. 2. Applications for membership shall be made in 
duplicate, upon blank forms prescribed by the General Board 
of Managers of the National Society, and shall in each 
case set forth the name, occupation and residence of the 
applicant, his line of descent, and the name, residence and 
services of his ancestor or ancestors in the Revolution from 
whom he derives eligibility. The applicant shall make oath 
that the statements of his application are true, according t& 
the best of his knowledge and belief. His application shall 
be endorsed by two members of the Society, accompanied 
by a letter from at least one compatriot, and subject to such 
other requirements as may be prescribed by the rules or by- 
laws of the Society. 

Sec. 3. Sons of Revolutionary soldiers who are regularly 
accepted by the Board of Management, upon the recom- 
mendation of the proper committees, may be made honorary 
members of the Society without payment of annual dues. 

Sec. 4. Any Senator or Representative, or officer in the 
civil, military or naval service of the United States, officially 
residing in Washington, or any officer in the Diplomatic 
service of the Government of the United States, who is a 
member in good standing of a State Society of the Sons of 
the American Revolution, may be elected to honorary mem- 
bership in this Society. 

Members of State Societies, Sons of the American Revo- 
lution, may, while residing in the District of Columbia and 
upon election by the Board of Management, be enrolled as 
Associate members of this Societv. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 58 

Sec. 5. Whenever a member in good standing- changes his 
residence to the jurisdiction of another State Society, he shall 
be entitled, if he so elects, to a certificate of honorable dimis- 
sion, in order that he may be transferred to said Society : 
provided that no such certificate shall be given unless all 
dues and fees are paid, and said membership in this Society 
shall not cease until membership in the State Society shall 
be established. 

Sec. 6. If for any reason a member resigns or is dropped 
from the rolls of the Society, the number of his insignia shall 
be cancelled, and his name shall no longer appear in the 
year book of the Society. 

ARTICLE IV. 

OFFICERS AND MANAGERS. 

Section i. The Officers of the Society shall be a Presi- 
dent, a Senior, a Second and a Third Vice-Presidents, a 
Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treas- 
urer, a Registrar, an Assistant Registrar, a Historian, a 
Librarian and a Chaplain, who shall be elected at the an- 
nual meeting of the Society, and who shall hold office for 
one year, or until their successors shall be elected, and who, 
with fifteen other members, shall constitute the Board of 
Management ; provided, that the President and Vice-Presi- 
dents shall not be eligible for election for more than two 
successive terms ; and provided further, that the term of 
each of the fifteen members of the Board of Management 
hereinabove referred to shall be three years from the date 
of his election, and that the fifteen shall continue, as here- 
tofore, to be arranged in classes of five so that the terms 
of the five who have completed their three years of service 
shall expire at each annual meeting, at which their suc- 
cessors shall be elected. Vacancies in the Board of Man- 
agement shall be filled by the Society for the unexpired 
term. 

Sec. 2. Delegates to the Congress of the Society shall be 
elected at each annual meeting, in accordance with the re- 
quirements of the Constitution of the National Society, who 
shall hold office till their successors are duly elected and 
qualified. 



54 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY 

Sec. 3. An Executive Committee of five, of which the 
President of the Society shall be the chairman, may be 
elected by the Board of Management from their number, 
who shall, in the interim between the meetings of the Board, 
transact such business as shall be delegated to it by the 
Board of Management. Three members shall be a quorum 
of the Executive Committee. 

ARTICLE V. 

FEES AND DUES. 

Section i. The initiation fee shall be five dollars ($5.00) : 
the annual dues three dollars ($3.00) ; or the payment at 
one time of fifty dollars ($50.00) shall constitute a life mem- 
ber with exemption from payment of dues thereafter. Mem- 
bers of the "Sons of the Revolution'' who join this Society 
will be exempt from the payment of an initiation fee, pro- 
vided thev are eligible and acceptable under the constitution 
of this Society. Young men who are members of the So- 
ciety of the Children of the American Revolution in the 
District of Columbia may, on coming of lawful age, be ad- 
mitted without payment of initiation fee, provided they are 
similarly eligible and acceptable. When a member is elected 
after the annual meeting his dues for the remainder of that 
year shall be at the rate of twenty-five cents per month. 

Sec. 2. The annual dues shall be payable m advance on the 
22d day of February. 

Sec. 3. When the dues of any member shall remain un- 
paid for nine months, the Treasurer shall give him notice 
that unless the same be paid within two months thereafter 
his membership shall cease ; and in case such dues are not 
paid pursuant to such notice, or the default be satisfactorily 
accounted for to the Board of Management, he shall there- 
upon cease to be a member. No nomination of a com- 
patriot for office shall be valid if he shall be found to be in 
arrears for dues for the current year, and in such case his 
name shall not appear on the printed ballot provided for by 
Section i. Article VIII hereof. 

Sec. 4. The receipts each year from initiation fees, life- 
membership fees, and dues, constituting the aggregate an- 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 55 

nual resources of the Society, shall be devoted by the Board 
of Management to the following objects, and no others, 
viz : 

1. Payment of annual dues to the National Society of 
fifty cents for each active member. 

2. Maintenance of a building fund, by the investment of 
not less than ten per cent, of the aggregate annual resources 
of the Society in such securities as the Board of Manage- 
ment shall direct. 

3. Payment of current expenses. 

4. Publication of such documents as may be deemed ad- 
visable. 

5. Payment of such special expenses as may be author- 
ized by the vote of two-thirds of the Board of Management ; 
but if from the report of the Treasurer at any time, it shall 
appear to be likely that there will be a balance against the 
Treasurer at the annual meeting if all the liabilities of the 
year are met, no appropriation of money shall be made by 
the Board of Management for any object but the necessary 
current expenses of the Society while such likelihood shall 
continue to exist. 

Sec. 5. No vote of the Society, whereby any expenditure 
from the general funds of the Society, or from the building 
fund, or any borrowing of money, directly or indirectly, on 
the credit of the Society, shall be caused, shall be passed 
except at a stated or special meeting of the Society at which 
at least fifty members shall be present, and two-thirds of 
those present shall vote in favor thereof, nor until the sub- 
ject has been previously referred to the Board of Manage- 
ment for recommendation and they shall have reported their 
opinion thereon, which report shall be made at the stated 
meeting next after the reference, or at a special meeting 
called for the purpose. 

ARTICLE VI. 

THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT. 

The Board of Management shall consist of the Presi- 
dent, Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary, Corresponding 
Secretary, Treasurer, Registrar, Assistant Registrar, His- 



56 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY 

torian, Librarian, Chaplain, ex oMcio, and fifteen members 
who shall be elected as herein provided. 

This Board shall judge of the qualifications of the candi- 
dates for admission to the Society and elect the same ; and 
may establish local chapters with such powers as it may 
deem proper within its jurisdiction not inconsistent with the 
Constitution of the National Society ; and may expel any 
member, after due notice and impartial trial, who by conduct 
unbecoming a gentleman shall render himself unworthy to 
remain a member, subject to appeal to the Society; and shall 
have charge of all meetings ; shall recommend plans for pro- 
moting the objects of the Society ; shall digest and prepare 
business ; and shall authorize the disbursement and expen- 
diture of unappropriated money in the treasury for the pay- 
ment of current expenses ; and generally superintend all the 
interests of the Society and execute all such duties as may 
be committed to it by the Society. It shall make, through 
the President, a general report of its transactions at the 
annual meeting of the Society. 

At all meetings of the Board of Management, five or more 
shall be sufficient for the transaction of business. 

ARTICLE Vn. 

MEfilTINGS. 

Section i. A regular meeting of the Society shall be 
held on the first Wednesday in February in each year, at 8 
o'clock p. m., for putting in nomination candidates for the 
offices of President, Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary,. 
Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, Registrar, Assistant 
Registrar, Historian, Librarian and Chaplain, for members 
of the Board of Management, and for delegates and alter- 
nates to the Congress of the National Society, all of whom 
are to be balloted for at the ensuing annual meeting. At 
this nominating meeting all nominations shall be made from; 
the floor and not by committee. Such other business as 
may be properly brought before it may be transacted at this 
meeting. 

Sec. 2. The annual meeting for the election of officers 
and transaction of business shall be held at noon on the 22d 



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day of February, the anniversary of the Birth of George 
Washington, in every year, except when that date shall fall 
on Sunday, in which case the meeting shall be held on 
the following day. 

Sec. 3. Special meetings may be called by the President or 
Board of Management at any time for business purposes 
or for the purpose of celebrating events of the Revolution 
or other patriotic events, or devising means for the prose- 
cution of patriotic work. The President shall call a special 
meeting whenever requested in writing so to do by five or 
more members. 

Sec. 4. General business may be transacted at any special 
meeting. 

Sec. 5. Thirteen members shall constitute a quorum at 
all meetings. Ayes and noes shall be called at any rreet- 
ing of the Society upon the demand of five members. 

ARTICLE VIII. 
elections. 

Section i. The Recording Secretary shall prepare from 
the list of compatriots who were properly put in nomination 
at the nominating meeting provided for by Section i. Article 
VII, a printed ballot having thereon (under proper heads 
showing the number of names that may be voted for under 
each head) the names of all compatriots who were nomin- 
ated for each office or class of offices, and shall forward to 
each compatriot of the Society with the notice of the annual 
meeting one copy of such printed ballot. 

Sec. 2. A compatriot who desires to vote at the annual 
meeting shall appear in person, between the hours of noon 
and I o'clock p. m., on the day and at the place of such 
meeting, and deposit with tellers to be appointed by the Presi- 
dent for the purpose, one of the printed ballots, on which ihe 
names of the several compatriots in whose favor he wishes- 
his ballot counted (to the number permissible in each class) 
shall be indicated by a cross-mark made by him opposite 
each of such names, or by new names written by him on 
the ballot, as he may choose. Voting by proxy, or at the 
annual meeting on the first ballot by any other method than 



58 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY 

by the official ballot, shall not be permitted, and voting for 
a greater number of names than there are offices to fill in 
any class is prohibited. 

Sec. 3. At i o'clock p. m., on the day of the annual meet- 
ing, the President shall declare the polls closed, and the 
tellers shall immediately proceed to the counting of the 
votes, and shall communicate the result to the President at 
once on the completion of the same. Where a compatriot's 
name appears more than once, if elected to a higher office, his 
votes for the minor office shall not be counted. 

Sec. 4. Compatriots who shall receive, respectively, 
the highest number of votes for the offices of President, Re- 
cording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, 
Registrar, Assistant Registrar, Historian, Librarian and 
Chaplain, shall be declared elected. The compatriot receiv- 
ing the highest number of votes for Vice-President shall be 
declared elected Senior Vice-President ; the one receiving 
the next highest vote shall be declared elected Second Vice- 
President, and the one receiving the next highest vote shall 
be declared elected Third Vice-President. 

Sec. 5. Nominees for membership in the Board of Man- 
agement (to the number of places to be filled) who shall re- 
ceive the highest number of votes shall be declared elected ; 
those inter sese receiving the highest number of votes to be 
declared elected for the longest terms, those receiving the 
next highest for the next longest terms, and so on until all 
the vacancies in the Board are filled. 

Sec. 6. Should there be a failure of election in any case 
or cases, the President shall order a new ballot in such case 
or cases, and the vote shall be taken and the result an- 
nounced before adjournment. 

Sec. 7. Of the nominees for delegates to the Congress of 
the National Society, those who receive the highest numbers 
of votes cast (to the number of delegates authorized) shall 
be declared elected as delegates, the one receiving the high- 
est number being delegate-at-large ; and those receiving the 
next highest numbers (to the number of alternates author- 
ized) shall be declared elected as alternates. 

Sec. 8. Compatriots who shall be declared elected shall 



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hold office for the terms for which they were elected, or 
until the qualification of their successors. 

Sec. 9. All elections to fill vacancies which it may become 
necessary to hold at other than the annual meeting shall be 
by ballot. 

ARTICLE IX. 

AMENDMENTS. 

Amendments to this Constitution or to the By-Laws may 
be offered at any meeting of the Society, but shall not be 
acted on until the next meeting. A copy of every proposed 
amendment shall be sent to each member, with a notice of 
the meeting at which the same is to be acted on, at least 
one week prior to said meeting. A vote of two-thirds of 
those present shall be necessary to the adoption of any 
amendments. 



BY-LAWS. 



SECTION I. 

ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 

Applicants for admission to membership in this Society 
shall file with the Registrar such applications as are pre- 
scribed in Section 2, Article III, of the Constitution, accom- 
panied with the initiation fee of five dollars. These papers 
shall be referred to the Committee on Eligibility. If found 
eligible, the papers shall be referred to the Committee on 
Acceptability, and on approval by said committee forwarded 
to the Recording Secretary, who shall, before submitting the 
papers to the Board of Management, publish the names, 
occupations and addresses of all applicants for membership, 
properly recommended, as aforesaid, in the notice of meet- 
ing of the Society next after receipt of the applications; 
and final action by the Board of Management shall not be 
taken until the first regular meeting after the said meeting 
of the Society. Should it be deemed advisable, during the 



60 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY 



recess from May to iVoveniber, to consider new applications, 
the President shall direct the Secretary to publish and mail 
to the compatriots a list of names, occupations and addresses 
of such new applicants, but no action shall be taken by the 
Board of Management until a period of at least thirty days 
shall have elapsed after this list has been mailed. Should ob- 
jection be made to the acceptability of any applicant or ap- 
plicants by any member or members of the Society prior to 
final action by the Board of Management, such application or 
applications will be referred back to the Committee on Ac- 
ceptability, with instructions to investigate all charges and 
report on the same to the r)Oard at the earliest practicable 
date. The question of acceptability and eligibility being- 
established to the satisfaction of the Board of Management, 
on proper motion said applicants will be duly elected as 
members of the Society, and, unless their eligibility be ques- 
tioned by the Registrar General of the National Society, 
they shall be entitled to all the privileges of compatriots. 
Should an application be disapproved, the papers and fee 
shall be at once returned to the applicant. 

SECTION II. 

THE PRESIDENT. 

The President, or in his absence a Vice-President, or itv 
his absence a Chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all 
meetings of the Society and Board of Management, and have 
a casting vote. He shall exercise the usual functions of a 
presiding officer, and shall enforce strict observance of the 
Constitution and By-Laws and of the regulations and rules 
of the Society. 

SECTION III. 

THE SECRETARIES. 

The Recording Secretary shall have charge of the seal,, 
certificate of incorporation, by-laws and records of the So- 
ciety, and together with the presiding officer, shall certify 
all acts of the Society. He shall keep fair and accurate 
records of all the proceedings and orders of the Society ; and 
shall give notice to the several officers of all votes, orders. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 61 



resolves and proceedings of the Society affecting them or 
appertaining to their respective duties. 

He shall notify all members of their election and shall, 
under the direction of the President or Vice-President, give 
<lue notice of the time and place of all meetings of the So- 
ciety, and attend the same. 

The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the general 
correspondence of the Society under the direction of the 
President, and assist the Recording Secretary in his duties, 
and do such other acts as may be directed by the Board of 
Management. 

SECTION IV. 

THE TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and secur- 
ities of the Society ; they shall be deposited in some bank 
or savings institution in the District of Columbia to the 
credit of The District of Columbia Society of the Sons 
OF the American Revolution, and shall be drawn thence 
on the check of the Treasurer for such purposes and in such 
sums only as may be ordered by vote of the Board of Man- 
agement or by special vote of the Society under Section 5 of 
Article V of the Constitution. His vouchers shall bear the 
approval of the President and Secretary of the Society. He 
shall keep a true account of his receipts and payments, and 
from time to time shall make report thereof to the Board 
of Management as it may direct, and at each annual meeting 
shall render an annual account of the same to the Society, 
which shall be referred to the Ways and Means Committee 
for examination and report. 

SECTION V. 

the registrar. 

The Registrar shall keep a roll of members, and in his 
hands shall be lodged all the proofs of membership qualifica- 
tion, and all the historical and genealogical papers, manu- 
script or other, of which the Society may become possessed ; 
and under the direction of the Board of Management, shall 



62 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY 

keep copies of such similar documents as the owners thereof 
may not be willing to leave permanently in the keeping of 
the Society. He shall verify all statements of the Revolu- 
tionary services of ancestors that may be made in the appli- 
cations for membership, and make report to the Board of 
Management. 

SECTION VI. 

THE HISTORIAN. 

The Historian shall keep the records of the historical and 
commemorative meetings of the Society, and shall super- 
vise the preparation and printing of all its historical publica- 
tions, other than those of the membership rolls. 

He shall submit at each annual meeting a list of the mem- 
bers who may have died during the year, accompanied by 
biographical memoirs. 

SECTION VII. 

THE LIBRARIAN. 

The Librarian shall have charge of the books, pamphlets, 
etc., belonging to or deposited with the Society, and shall 
keep suitable records and catalogues of the same under the 
direction of the Library Committee. 

SECTION VIII. 

COMMITTEES. 

As soon as practicable after his election the President 
shall appoint the following standing committees, the mem- 
bers of which shall serve for one year, or until their suc- 
cessors are appointed, viz : 

1. Ways and Means Committee, consisting of seven mem- 
bers, who shall perform the duties of a finance committee, 
and shall have charge of all measures for raising the neces- 
sary means for carrying on the business of the Society, 
including the subject of initiation fees and dues. This com- 
mittee shall audit the Treasurer's accounts. 

2. Building Committee, consisting of three members. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 



6S 



7, Library Committee, consisting of three members, who 
shall have charge of the library and relics and rooms of the 
Society, and the supervision of such publications as may be 
authorized by the Society. 

4 Advancement Committee, consisting of thirteen mem- 
bers who shall consider, and from time to time report to 
the Board of Management such measures as m their opinion 
are calculated to advance the interests and promote the gen- 
eral welfare of the Society. 

^ Meetings Committee, consisting of seven members, who 
shall have charge of all arrangements for meetings or out- 
ings of the Society which may involve extra expense for 
either transportation, entertainments or refreshments. 

6 Eligibility Committee, consisting of three members, 
who shall, after careful scrutiny of the record of each appli- 
cant for membership, endorse their conclusions upon the 
application papers, and transmit the papers to the Committee 

on Acceptabilitv. ^ , , ^^ 

7 Aeeeptability Committee, consisting of three members, 
who shall, after due inquiry into the character and standing 
of each applicant, endorse their recommendations upon he 
application papers, and transmit the papers to the Secretary 
for the action of the Board. 

8 Recruiting Committee, consisting of forty-four mem- 
bers, who shall be a lookout committee for securing acces- 
sions to the membership of the Society. 

g Press Committee, consisting of three members, who 

shall be charged with all matters for publication concerning 

. the Society in which the public press may be considered to 

'^o'X'committee, consisting of three members, whose 
duty it shall be to have charge of the arrangements for the 
music at all meetings of the Society. .,,,^ninP- 

In the absence from the city of members of the foregoing 
committees, the President is authorized to ^PP-nt tempo- 
rarily in any case, a sufficient number of members to com 
plete a quorum; and he is authorized to appoint at any 
time, for temporary purposes, special committees, at the re- 
quest of the Board of Management. 



64 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 

SECTION IX. 

FORM FOR INSTALLATION OF COMPATRIOTS. 

The Presiding Officer shall say : 

''The gentlemen who have been elected members since 
the last installation will present themselves." 

The compatriots who endorsed the applications in these 
cases will escort the gentlemen to the Chair under the direc- 
tion of the Committee on Acceptability. 

The Presiding Officer will then say to the newly elected 
members : 

''Gentlemen: The interests, objects and principles of 
this Society are committed to our united care. We are 
pledged 'to cherish, maintain and extend the institutions of 
American freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of 
country, and tp aid in securing for mankind all the blessings 
of liberty.' Do you so pledge yourselves?" 

Answer: "We do." 

The Presiding Officer will then say : 

"The Compatriots of the Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution will rise. Your properly constituted 
authorities have, after due care, recommended and elected 
the gentlemen present ; and they are now formally accepted 
as Compatriots of this Society." 

The members of the Society will then say : 

"Compatriots, we welcome you most heartily." 

SECTION X. 

Whenever practicable, personal notice of the place, time 
and purpose of any general or special meeting of the Society 
shall be sent through the mail to each and every member 
five days before the date of such assembly. 



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